Our feature film Mami Wata, which wrapped in January 2021 has been selected to participate in the Final Cut at the 78th Venice Film Festival. This is the first for a Nigerian film, and the Mami Wata, led by producer Oge Obasi and director C.J.......
Our award-winning feature film MAMI WATA has been acquired by Dekanalog for North American distribution. Based on West African mermaid folklore and mythology, Mami Wata is set in the remote West African village of Iyi, where Mama Efe (Rita Edochie) acts as an intermediary between the people......
MAMI WATA premiered at the Sundance Film Festival with resounding acclaim and success, winning the Special Jury Award for Cinematography for Lílis Soares. After it’s world premiere at Sundance, MAMI WATA had its African premiere at FESPACO, wining three awards at this prestigious event –......
Seven years in the making, the third feature film by Nigerias rebel-with-a-cause, C.J. “Fiery” Obasi will have its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival 2023! The entire is reeling from the glorious news for what is a first......
The feature film MAMI WATA, first announced by filmmaker C.J. “Fiery” Obasi in 2016, has been in development through various labs and workshops in Africa and Europe, including Ouaga Film Lab, DurbanFilmMart, Less is More and EAVE. Principal photography ended officially in January 2021, and......
The third feature film by C.J. “Fiery” Obasi has received post-production support from Swiss fund, Visions Sud Est for 20,000 Swiss Francs. 172 projects were submitted in total, 5 have been selected for a support, 1 documentary and 4 fiction films. This is the second post-production......
After a successful world premiere at the 74th Locarno Film Festival, the anthology film Juju Stories, written and directed by the trio of filmmakers, C.J. Obasi, Abba Makama and Michael Omonua, known as the Surreal16 Collective won the Boccalino D’oro Award for Best Film, awarded......
The anthology film by the Surreal16 Collective, Juju Stories will have its world premiere at the 74 Locarno Film Festival, in the Concorso Internazionale (International Competition). Juju Stories is a 3-part feature film exploring supernatural themes based on urban legends in Nigerian superstition. Each segment......
After five years of script development, writing, labs and workshops across Africa and Europe, writer/director C.J. Obasi’s third feature film Mami Wata has wrapped. The feature shot in four weeks in Benin republic, with a cast and crew spanning seven countries began it’s lab journey......
The JCC Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia is the oldest film festival in Africa, taking place between October 26 to November, with a special Focus on Nigeria – among Chile, Lebanon and Japan focus sections. The films playing in the Nigeria Focus are Mokalik and......