EGÚNGÚN (MASQUERADE) - Cineffable 2022

Olive NWOSU

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Olive Nwosu is a BAFTA Pigott 2020 Scholar at Columbia University School of the Arts, and one of four "African Promises 2020" directors selected by the Institut Français. Olive has written and directed two award-winning short films Troublemaker (2019), set in eastern Nigeria and featuring entirely non-actors, played in over 20 film festivals worldwide, and Egúngún (Masquerade) (2021), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before going on to play at Sundance Film Festival, among many others. Olive is currently in development of her first feature film. Her work is informed by the intersectional nature of her life experiences across multiple identities and continents. Her mission is to tell truthful, cinematic, human-centered, stories.

@olivenwosu

@nwosu_olive

October 20 to 23, 2022

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