Zachariah Lloyd Sesay

Born in Mogwemo, South Sierra Leone and raised in Freetown. Zachariah Lloyd Sesay is an Actor/Director/Producer/Screenwriter & Gospel Rapper. He started music at the age of 10 and recorded his first song in 2001 at the Forensic Records. He started acting in theatre in 2004. He started filmmaking in 2006 as an actor and writer. He wrote his first original script titled Community Crime in 2009. He shot his first movie Home of the Witches as an assistant director in 2010. And shot his second movie as the Director General in 2011. He directed movies and train actors until 2014; between these years he directed 9 movies which are considered substandard, except Community Crime, which he wrote in 2009 and directed in 2014, he took the lead role and that was the first time to take a lead role in a movie. He produced and directed his first documentary, a 3 in 1 Ebola education sensitization documentary film. He found the Lloyd Zachy Production Ltd and in 2017 Lloyd Zachariah directed and took the senior most role in a movie everyone considered as his breakthrough; this movie was written by him and produced by the Nollywood and Sierra Leone multi award winning producer and actor Collins Archie-Pierce based in the U.K, who also starred on the movie titled Transform. Zachariah has played major roles on other productions not mentioned here. He won his first international award at the Siiketv Network Rising Star Awards as the Writer of the Year 2017 for the movie Community Crime. Lloyd worked for a renowned organization called Life-By-Design as a screenwriter and producer for a brief, and he; Lloyd Zachariah is considered by most as one of the finest Screenwriters in the country. Lloyd later starred in a movie titled The Bond in later 2018. In October 2017 Lloyd released his first professional gospel music video titled Make it and H.O.L.Y in 2018 and is working imminently on his album. Lloyd Zachariah is also a film business entrepreneur, an advocate, a motivator and free lance air personality. He is the CEO of Lloyd Zachy Production Ltd, an indigenous company in Sierra Leone operating in multimedia, transportation, agribusiness and construction and also the president of H.A.A.A.N.D. Africa a Pan-African social advocacy and human right creative and performing art organization. Lloyd is one of the few finest screenwriters in the country and one of the fastest growing actors in Sierra Leone. He is a former Country Representative for African Youths for Development Commission, Former Secretary at African Filmmakers Association in Nigiera, Azania Filmmakers Association and the former Secretary General for the Actors Guild of Sierra Leone.