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Ngozi Onwurah
Nigeria
Graduated as a director from the UK's National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield. Her first short film, 'Coffee Coloured Children', achieved international film festival s…
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Graduated as a director from the UK's National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield. Her first short film, 'Coffee Coloured Children', achieved international film festival success and won first prize in the BBC Showreel competition. More success and awards followed with further dramas and documentaries for a number of UK and international broadcasters including 'South of the Border', a groundbreaking series for the BBC. She was awarded the prestigious honour of special retrospective screenings at the New York Film Festival, including 'The Body Beautiful', one of the UK's most commercially successful short films. Her first feature film, 'Welcome II The Terrordome', won first prize at the Birmingham International Film Festival, the Cologne Film Festival and the audience prize at the Verona Film Festival. Ngozi has also directed an episode of 'Heartbeat' for ITV, the top-rated UK drama series with an audience of over 18 million.
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2024
Neighborhood Alert
Movie Director
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2006
Shoot the Messenger
Movie Director
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2002
Mama Africa
Movie Director
- 2002
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2001
Hang Time
Movie Writer
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1996
Crucial Tales
TV show Director
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1996
I Bring You Frankincense
Movie Director
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1996
White Men Are Cracking Up
Movie Director
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1995
The Desired Number
Movie Writer
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1995
Welcome II the Terrordome
Movie Director
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1993
Monday's Girls
Movie Director
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1992
Flight of the Swan
Movie Writer
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1992
Heartbeat
TV show Director
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1992
And Still I Rise
Movie Director
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1991
The Body Beautiful
Movie Director
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1989
Under the Sun
TV show Director
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1988
South of the Border
TV show Director
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1988
Coffee Coloured Children
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