Nosa Igbinedion

Nosa Igbinedion is a British-Nigerian filmmaker whose work is centered in African Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Whether it's solar robots policing the streets of Lagos in 2050 or African deities manifesting on gritty south London housing estates, his work is a collision of grounded realism with stylized fantasy. He is dedicated to creating speculative fiction that is rooted in African culture, mythology and point of view which does not place the western gaze at the center. Nosa was recently commissioned by the BBC and BFI to write, and direct 'Binge Watching' a social realist sci-fi short that was broadcast on BBC 4 and I player. He is the writer and director of the first African superhero short movie, Rise of the Orisha, which he has developing as a feature film. The feature script scored among the highest on the Slated platform. Slated has come on board to assist us with raising the remainder of our funding through their investor database Past accolades; Nosa's first fiction short film The Hydra won best film at the BFM Shorts Awards 2009. Nosa, in 2011 co-directed The Prayer with Shola Amoo and produced by Fiona Lamptey. The Prayer played festivals worldwide including, The Samsung's Women's International Film Festival 2012 in India, The London Short Film Festival 2013 and The Pan African Film Festival 2013 in Los Angeles. In 2011, he was selected as the only UK fellow, on scholarship at the legacy media institute in Virginia USA. The legacy media is run by legendary actor. producer and distributor Tim Reid. In 2013 he thought up the idea for the first African superhero movie, Oya Rise of the Orisha. A movie based upon the ancient African gods of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, the Orisha. The film screened in festivals around the world and went viral, going on to generate over 1 million views online. In 2015 he won the Screen Nation 'Rising Star' award. In 2017 he won Raindance's Live Ammunition' pitch award.