Nigeria

Ishaya Bako, born December 1986, is a Nigerian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Kaduna, where he lived all his life and later moved to London, where he studied at the London Film School. After attending the London Film School, Bako went on to script and direct the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA)-winning Braids on a Bald Head. He won the Best Short Film Awards at the 8th African Movie Academy Awards. He is an emerging voice of his generation and a member of a select few Global Shapers, a collection of enterprising youths initiated by the World Economic Forum. His film Fuelling Poverty (2012), a documentary on poverty and fuel subsidy in Nigeria, is narrated by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka. Ishaya Bako lives in Abuja, Nigeria. His film The Royal Hibiscus Hotel was screened at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. He also was one of the writers for the movie Lionheart (2018). Biography Source

Filmography

Left (2008)
Blue Baby Elephants (2009)
Braids on a Bald Head (2010)
Fuelling Poverty (2012)
Dream, Poetic (2013)
Easy Money (2013)
Enitan (2013)
Nemesis (2013)
Not Do or Die (2013)
Silent Tears (2015)
Road to Yesterday (2015)
Henna (2015)
The Royal Hibiscus Hotel (2017)
Shuga (2018)
4th Republic (2019)