Ngozi Onwurah

Ngozi Onwurah

Known for

Directing

Birthplace

Nigeria

Biography

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 th...

Best known work

Heartbeat
Heartbeat
1992
The Body Beautiful
The Body Beautiful
1991
Welcome II the Terrordome
Welcome II the Terrordome
1995
Shoot the Messenger
Shoot the Messenger
2006
White Men Are Cracking Up
White Men Are Cracking Up
1996
Coffee Coloured Children
Coffee Coloured Children
1988
Flight of the Swan
Flight of the Swan
1992
And Still I Rise
And Still I Rise
1992
The Desired Number
The Desired Number
1995
Hang Time
Hang Time
2001

Filmography

  1. 2024

    Neighborhood Alert

    Director, Writer

  2. 2006

  3. 2002

    Mama Africa

    Director, Writer

  4. 2002

  5. 2001

    Hang Time

    Director, Writer

  6. 1996

  7. 1996

    Crucial TalesTV

    Director

  8. 1996

  9. 1995

    The Desired Number

    Director, Writer

  10. 1995

  11. 1993

  12. 1992

    Flight of the Swan

    Director, Writer

  13. 1992

    HeartbeatTV

    Director

  14. 1992

    And Still I Rise

    Director, Writer

  15. 1991

    The Body Beautiful

    Director, Writer

  16. 1989

    Under the SunTV

    Director

  17. 1988

  18. 1988

    Coffee Coloured Children

    Editor, Director, Writer

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