Ngozi Onwurah Trailers
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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 the Birmingham International Film Festival, the Cologne Film Festival and the audience prize at the Verona Film Festival. Ngozi has also directed an episode of 'Heartbeat' for ITV, the top-rated UK drama series with an audience of over 18 million.
Most Popular Ngozi Onwurah Trailers
Total trailers found: 14
07 June 2002
In 1997, six African women pledged that in the first year of the new millennium they would tell their stories, stories by African women.
26 April 2006
Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.
23 November 1996
"A rites of passage drama about a mixed race boy called Sunshine who leaves Guildford in [the] 1970's and moves to London.
20 January 1995
Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in.
16 January 2002
Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut intersperses interviews with such acclaimed women directors as Safi Faye, Sarah Maldoror, Anne Mungai, Fanta Régina Nacro and Ngozi Onwurah with footage from their seminal work.
29 January 2001
Hang Time follows Kwame, a promising basketball player who, desperate to provide for his grandmother and sister and obtain a contract in America, accepts a risky proposal.
01 January 1988
Coffee-Colored Children is an autobiographical portrayal of Ngozi's, and her brother's, sad welcome to the world where the color of your skin dictates the amount of respect & love you receive.
01 January 1992
Inspired by Maya Angelou’s poetry, Onwurah explores fears and fascinations about black women.
12 September 1993
"Monday's Girls" explores the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young Waikiriki women from the Niger delta.
03 October 1991
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond.
09 October 1992
A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as lead ballerina Princess Odette, but the girls in her close-minded ballet school mock her ideas of a 'black swan'.
01 January 1996
Maisie Blue is an enigmatic black widow figure under investigation by detective Margrave for her involvement in the suicides of successful white men.
22 January 2024
The story of a Black mother who is forced to take extraordinary action in order to ensure the safety of her teenage son.
09 September 1995
This short documentary examines multiple facets of Nigeria’s cultural attitudes towards pregnancy, women’s productive options, and the familial structure.
