USA / Nigeria / Guyana

Chelsea Odufu is an award winning Nigerian, Guyanese and American filmmaker who fuses her passion for culture and Afrofuturism to highlight the uniqueness of underrepresented groups on screen. Her award winning film Ori Inu: In Search of Self screened at film festivals globally and at institutions such as Harvard, Yale and the British Film Institute. She has directed content for brands including Cadillac, Gillette Venus, Target, and Fiverr where she traveled across Asia for four months as a Chief Digital Nomad. She has worked for Spike Lee on his projects Chi-Raq and She’s Gotta Have It. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes Magazine and The Huffington Post, among other notable outlets. Chelsea has recently completed her new Afrofuturistic TV pilot, Black Lady Goddess as well as an experimental short film titled, Everybody Has a Right to Survive. In 2021, Chelsea will participate in Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal Artist in Residence program.

Filmography

The Love Below (2015)
Ori Inu: In Search of Self (2015)
Black Lady Goddess (2019)