Nigeria

Michael Omonua is a writer/director who became passionate about cinema during film studies classes in secondary school. He received his BA in Film Production at the University College of the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey. He has since gone on to write and direct eleven short films in both England and Nigeria, many of which have screened at a number of festivals and exhibitions, including Made in Nollywood (Bordeaux), London Short Film Festival, and Africa International Film Festival, and has had a film (Talk) selected for Vimeo Staff Picks. His short, Brood was screened at the 2018 Rotterdam International Film Festival. Omonua served as director of photography on Abba T. Makama's The Lost Okoroshi, which had its world premiere at TIFF 2019. His debut feature, The Man Who Cuts Tattoos, had its world premiere at BFI's London Film Festival in 2019. His 2021 short, Rehearsal, was in competition at Berlinale Shorts 2021. His influences include the humanist cinema of Ray, Ozu, and Bresson and the experimentation of French New Wave directors.

Filmography

Talk (2010)
The Block (2011)
Sun Eje / Bleed (2014)
Born (2016)
Yahoo Boy (2016)
Brood (2018)
The Man Who Cuts Tattoos (2019)
Juju Stories (2021)