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Oge Obasi
Producteur/trice, Producteur/trice délégué/e
Nigeria
© courtesy Fiery Film Cie
Site web : twitter.com/simplyoge
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Productrice nigériane de cinéma.
Oge OBASI est une productrice de films (Fiery Film Company & 20 Pounds Production).
Sometimes credited as / parfois créditée sous le nom de
Oge UGWU
Elle est connue pour MAMI WATA (2023, Productrice), HELLO RAIN.
Elle a remporté le Prix EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs Prize) au 3e OUAGA FILM LAB (Ouaga, Burkina Faso | 24-29 Septembre 2018), pour son projet de film MAMI WATA.
MAMI WATA a fait sa Première Mondiale au Festival de Sundance 2023 (USA) où il a remporté le Prix Spéciale du Jury pour la Direction Photo.
Le film a gagné 3 Prix au FESPACO 2023 (Burkina) : le prestigieux Prix Paulin Vieyra (African Critics Award)2023, ainsi que le Prix de la MEILLEURE IMAGE (Cinematography Award), pour Lílis Soares et le Prix du MEILLEUR DÉCOR (Set Design Award), for Fiery Obasi. Il était nominé pour l’Etalon de Yennenga 2023.
FILMOGRAPHY / FILMMOGRAPHIE :
(2015) Desperate Housewives Africa
(TV Series / Série télévisée, 20 Episodes)
/// Production Manager / Direction de production
(2009) The Figurine
/// Assistant production manager / Assistante Direction de production (as Oge Ugwu)
(2023) Mami Wata
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée
(2021) Juju Stories
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, / Productrice
(2018) Hello, Rain
(Short / Court-métrage)
/// Producer, / Productrice
(2017) Visions
(Short / Court-métrage)
/// Executive Producer / Productrice Déléguée (segment Bruja)
(2015) O-Town
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2015) Shuga
(TV Series / Série télévisée, 6 Episodes)
/// Production coordinator / Coordinatrice de Production, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2014) Ojuju
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2014) October 1
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Production coordinator / Coordinatrice de Production, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D’INFOS) :
– Africiné Magazine
– https://twitter.com/simplyoge
– https://afieryfilm.com/about-us/
– www.imdb.com/name/nm6136298/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 19 July 2023
Oge OBASI est une productrice de films (Fiery Film Company & 20 Pounds Production).
Sometimes credited as / parfois créditée sous le nom de
Oge UGWU
Elle est connue pour MAMI WATA (2023, Productrice), HELLO RAIN.
Elle a remporté le Prix EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs Prize) au 3e OUAGA FILM LAB (Ouaga, Burkina Faso | 24-29 Septembre 2018), pour son projet de film MAMI WATA.
MAMI WATA a fait sa Première Mondiale au Festival de Sundance 2023 (USA) où il a remporté le Prix Spéciale du Jury pour la Direction Photo.
Le film a gagné 3 Prix au FESPACO 2023 (Burkina) : le prestigieux Prix Paulin Vieyra (African Critics Award)2023, ainsi que le Prix de la MEILLEURE IMAGE (Cinematography Award), pour Lílis Soares et le Prix du MEILLEUR DÉCOR (Set Design Award), for Fiery Obasi. Il était nominé pour l’Etalon de Yennenga 2023.
FILMOGRAPHY / FILMMOGRAPHIE :
(2015) Desperate Housewives Africa
(TV Series / Série télévisée, 20 Episodes)
/// Production Manager / Direction de production
(2009) The Figurine
/// Assistant production manager / Assistante Direction de production (as Oge Ugwu)
(2023) Mami Wata
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée
(2021) Juju Stories
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, / Productrice
(2018) Hello, Rain
(Short / Court-métrage)
/// Producer, / Productrice
(2017) Visions
(Short / Court-métrage)
/// Executive Producer / Productrice Déléguée (segment Bruja)
(2015) O-Town
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2015) Shuga
(TV Series / Série télévisée, 6 Episodes)
/// Production coordinator / Coordinatrice de Production, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2014) Ojuju
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2014) October 1
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Production coordinator / Coordinatrice de Production, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D’INFOS) :
– Africiné Magazine
– https://twitter.com/simplyoge
– https://afieryfilm.com/about-us/
– www.imdb.com/name/nm6136298/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 19 July 2023
English
Nigerian Film Producer.
Oge OBASI is Film Producer (Fiery Film Company & 20 Pounds Production).
Sometimes credited as / parfois créditée sous le nom de
Oge UGWU
She is known for MAMI WATA (2023, Producer), HELLO RAIN.
Oge Obasi has a production experience spanning almost a decade; having worked on various formats for TV and film, on such projects as The Figurine, Amstel Malta Box Office, Miss Earth Nigeria, Heineken’s Champion’s Planet, Desperate Housewives Africa, and MTV Base Shuga where she worked in the capacities of production coordinator and production manager.
Oge is the partner and production head at Fiery Film Company; a production company founded in 2012 by filmmaker C.J. Obasi to create genre-based films from an African perspective. With Fiery Film, Oge produced the acclaimed zero-budget zombie feature « Ojuju », which won the « Best Nigerian Film » award at the Africa International Film Festival 2014, and screened in festivals such as Fantasia Film Festival, Africa in Motion, and almost twenty other film festivals, and has been optioned for series production by a major Hollywood studio. She also produced the semi- autobiographical gangster saga « O-Town », which was an official selection at the Goteborg Film Festival, and received 3 nominations at the 2016 Africa Movie Academy Awards – Best Nigerian Film, Best Promising Actress and Achievement in Soundtrack, and winning in the latter. Oge, through Fiery Film executive produced the section of the anthology short Visions called called « Bruja ». Visions is an anthology short written, produced and directed by Surreal16 – a cinema collective from Nigeria, made up of filmmakers Abba T. Makama, C.J. Obasi and Michael Omonua, who through a 16-point manifesto have pledged to challenge the cinema narrative coming out of Nigeria.
The short film « Hello, Rain » – based on « Hello, Moto » by World Fantasy, Nebula and Hugo award winning Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor world premiered in the Oscar-qualifying International Competition of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, followed by a North American premiere in Fantasia Film Festival where it received the Special Mention of the Jury prize. Hello, Rain has also been nominated for the Short Film Award at the 2018 BFI London Film Festival.
She produced Juju Stories, a Franco-Nigerian anthology film which had its world premiere in the International Competition of Locarno Film Festival, and won the Boccalino D’Oro Award for Best Film. Juju Stories has since screened in many festivals, including the BFI London Film Festival, FESPACO, Indie Memphis and AFRIFF, where it won Best Director(s) Award for the trio of directors. Juju Stories was released theatrically by CanalOlympia across 12 African countries on October 29, 2021.
Her latest project is Mami Wata (2023) – a female-driven revenge thriller based on the Mermaid Goddess folklore of West Africa, directed by C.J. « Fiery » Obasi. Mami Wata was developed with Ouaga Film Lab, the European AudioVisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) Producers, Le Groupe Ouest’s Less is More, Durban Film Mart (DFM), and has been presented at Final Cut in Venice, and Yennenga Post- Production Workshop in FESPACO, where it received the Post- Production Grant from the Red Sea International Film Festival.
Mami Wata premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Cinematography.
It won 3 awards at 2023 FESPACO (Ouaga – Burkina Faso): the prestigious Paulin Vieyra Prize (African Critics Award), the Cinematography Award (for Lílis Soares) and the Set Design Award), for Fiery Obasi. The feature was a Golden Stallion (Etalon de Yennenga) nominee.
FILMOGRAPHY / FILMMOGRAPHIE :
(2015) Desperate Housewives Africa
(TV Series / Série télévisée, 20 Episodes)
/// Production Manager / Direction de production
(2009) The Figurine
/// Assistant production manager / Assistante Direction de production (as Oge Ugwu)
(2023) Mami Wata
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée
(2021) Juju Stories
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, / Productrice
(2018) Hello, Rain
(Short / Court-métrage)
/// Producer, / Productrice
(2017) Visions
(Short / Court-métrage)
/// Executive Producer / Productrice Déléguée (segment Bruja)
(2015) O-Town
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2015) Shuga
(TV Series / Série télévisée, 6 Episodes)
/// Production coordinator / Coordinatrice de Production, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2014) Ojuju
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2014) October 1
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Production coordinator / Coordinatrice de Production, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D’INFOS) :
– Africiné Magazine
– https://twitter.com/simplyoge
– https://afieryfilm.com/about-us/
– www.imdb.com/name/nm6136298/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 19 July 2023
Oge OBASI is Film Producer (Fiery Film Company & 20 Pounds Production).
Sometimes credited as / parfois créditée sous le nom de
Oge UGWU
She is known for MAMI WATA (2023, Producer), HELLO RAIN.
Oge Obasi has a production experience spanning almost a decade; having worked on various formats for TV and film, on such projects as The Figurine, Amstel Malta Box Office, Miss Earth Nigeria, Heineken’s Champion’s Planet, Desperate Housewives Africa, and MTV Base Shuga where she worked in the capacities of production coordinator and production manager.
Oge is the partner and production head at Fiery Film Company; a production company founded in 2012 by filmmaker C.J. Obasi to create genre-based films from an African perspective. With Fiery Film, Oge produced the acclaimed zero-budget zombie feature « Ojuju », which won the « Best Nigerian Film » award at the Africa International Film Festival 2014, and screened in festivals such as Fantasia Film Festival, Africa in Motion, and almost twenty other film festivals, and has been optioned for series production by a major Hollywood studio. She also produced the semi- autobiographical gangster saga « O-Town », which was an official selection at the Goteborg Film Festival, and received 3 nominations at the 2016 Africa Movie Academy Awards – Best Nigerian Film, Best Promising Actress and Achievement in Soundtrack, and winning in the latter. Oge, through Fiery Film executive produced the section of the anthology short Visions called called « Bruja ». Visions is an anthology short written, produced and directed by Surreal16 – a cinema collective from Nigeria, made up of filmmakers Abba T. Makama, C.J. Obasi and Michael Omonua, who through a 16-point manifesto have pledged to challenge the cinema narrative coming out of Nigeria.
The short film « Hello, Rain » – based on « Hello, Moto » by World Fantasy, Nebula and Hugo award winning Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor world premiered in the Oscar-qualifying International Competition of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, followed by a North American premiere in Fantasia Film Festival where it received the Special Mention of the Jury prize. Hello, Rain has also been nominated for the Short Film Award at the 2018 BFI London Film Festival.
She produced Juju Stories, a Franco-Nigerian anthology film which had its world premiere in the International Competition of Locarno Film Festival, and won the Boccalino D’Oro Award for Best Film. Juju Stories has since screened in many festivals, including the BFI London Film Festival, FESPACO, Indie Memphis and AFRIFF, where it won Best Director(s) Award for the trio of directors. Juju Stories was released theatrically by CanalOlympia across 12 African countries on October 29, 2021.
Her latest project is Mami Wata (2023) – a female-driven revenge thriller based on the Mermaid Goddess folklore of West Africa, directed by C.J. « Fiery » Obasi. Mami Wata was developed with Ouaga Film Lab, the European AudioVisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) Producers, Le Groupe Ouest’s Less is More, Durban Film Mart (DFM), and has been presented at Final Cut in Venice, and Yennenga Post- Production Workshop in FESPACO, where it received the Post- Production Grant from the Red Sea International Film Festival.
Mami Wata premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Cinematography.
It won 3 awards at 2023 FESPACO (Ouaga – Burkina Faso): the prestigious Paulin Vieyra Prize (African Critics Award), the Cinematography Award (for Lílis Soares) and the Set Design Award), for Fiery Obasi. The feature was a Golden Stallion (Etalon de Yennenga) nominee.
FILMOGRAPHY / FILMMOGRAPHIE :
(2015) Desperate Housewives Africa
(TV Series / Série télévisée, 20 Episodes)
/// Production Manager / Direction de production
(2009) The Figurine
/// Assistant production manager / Assistante Direction de production (as Oge Ugwu)
(2023) Mami Wata
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée
(2021) Juju Stories
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, / Productrice
(2018) Hello, Rain
(Short / Court-métrage)
/// Producer, / Productrice
(2017) Visions
(Short / Court-métrage)
/// Executive Producer / Productrice Déléguée (segment Bruja)
(2015) O-Town
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2015) Shuga
(TV Series / Série télévisée, 6 Episodes)
/// Production coordinator / Coordinatrice de Production, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2014) Ojuju
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
(2014) October 1
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Production coordinator / Coordinatrice de Production, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)
Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D’INFOS) :
– Africiné Magazine
– https://twitter.com/simplyoge
– https://afieryfilm.com/about-us/
– www.imdb.com/name/nm6136298/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 19 July 2023
Films(s)
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Mami Wata [Dir. Fiery Obasi]Long-métrage – 2023Dans un petit village isolé bordé par l’océan, les gens vivent de leurs cultures et honorent la déesse Mami Wata en confiant leurs richesses à Mama Efe, prêtresse qui sert d’intermédiaire à la puissante divinité sur terr…Oge Obasi est lié(e) à ce film en tant que producteur/trice -
Juju StoriesLong-métrage – 2021Un film en trois parties qui explore les histoires de juju (magie) enracinées dans le folklore nigérian et les légendes urbaines, écrit et réalisé par le nouveau collectif de cinéma nigérian connu sous le nom de Surreal1…Oge Obasi est lié(e) à ce film en tant que producteur/trice -
Afrofuturistik– 2019Avec l’avènement du film Black Panther, les spectateurs du monde entier se sont interrogés sur la notion d’afrofuturisme. L’Afrique peut-elle se projeter dans le futur ? Narrer sa propre histoire d’une manière plus expér…Oge Obasi est lié(e) à ce film en tant que producteur/trice -
Hello, RainCourt-métrage – 2018Grâce à une combinaison alchimique de juju (magie) et de technologie, une scientifique a créé des perruques qui lui confèrent des pouvoirs surnaturels à elle et à ses amis. Mais quand leurs …Oge Obasi est lié(e) à ce film en tant que producteur/trice -
O-townLong-métrage – 2015Peace et ses deux compères essaient de monter dans la hiérarchie du crime. Le monde souterrain de la ville de Owerri, ou « O-town », dans l’Est du Nigeria, est peuplé de voleurs, une faune d’individus bigarrés et une céléb…Oge Obasi est lié(e) à ce film en tant que producteur/trice -
October 1Long-métrage – 2014Nigeria, sous la colonisation. Officier de police, Waziri mène une enquête sur une série de meurtres de femmes au moment où le pays s’apprête à accéder à l’indépendance. Originaire du Nord du pays, il est affecté dans la…Oge Obasi est lié(e) à ce film en tant que coordinateur/trice
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