Julius Onah
| Julius Onah | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 10, 1983 |
| Occupation | film director, producer, screenwriter and actor |
| Years active | 2002 - present |
Julius Onah (born February 10, 1983) is an American filmmaker of Nigerian descent, who was raised in Arlington, VA and Washington D.C. after having lived in the Philippines, Nigeria, Togo, and the United Kingdom. He currently resides in New York City.[1] In the summer of 2010 he was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
Education
Onah received his BA in theater from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT and his MFA from the graduate film program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where he was selected as a Dean's Fellow [1] and a recipient of a Wayfare Entertainment Ventures Production Award. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship.[2] In 2009 Onah was selected as a directing talent at the Berlin Talent Campus[3] and in 2010 as part of Tribeca All Access. He is the brother of filmmaker Anthony Onah.[4]
Films
Onah's films include Linus which aired on mtvU[5] and received a 1st place prize in the Calvin Klein Student Film Competition,[1] Szmolinsky which screened in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival[6], The Boundary which was designated by Amnesty International as one of its "Movies That Matter" [7], received the best director award at NBC's Short Cuts Film Festival and aired on HBO[8], Nie Patrz Wstecz which won the Grand Jury Prize in the Nokia Mobile Movie Competition[9] at the Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland and was an official selection of the BFI London Film Festival and Goodbye Chicken, Farewell Goat which was an official selection of the Los Angeles Film Festival. Julius also directed "Big Man" in Lagos, Nigeria for Focus Features, which screened to a worldwide audience on the New York Times.[10] He most recently completed his debut feature The Girl is in Trouble with executive producer Spike Lee, with Alicja Bachleda, Wilmer Valderrama, Columbus Short, Jesse Spencer. He is currently in development on The God Particle[11] with producer J.J. Abrams.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://www.jkcf.org/our-scholars/scholar-stories/julius-onah/
- ↑ http://www.jkcf.org/our-scholars/current/2226-Julius-A-Onah
- ↑ http://www.berlinale-talentcampus.de/campus/talent/julius-onah3/profile
- ↑ http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/anthony-onah-bemigho-awala-take-top-cash-prizes-in-afrinolly-short-film-competition?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
- ↑ http://www.mtvu.com/video/?id=1555302&vid=139623 text
- ↑ http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,535596,00.html
- ↑ http://www.amnestyfilmfestival.nl/film/214
- ↑ http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_DETAIL=DETAIL&FOCUS_ID=684638
- ↑ http://www.pluscamerimage.pl/index.php?lang=en&pg=0327f60948152e7
- ↑ http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/new-york-times-stages-online-indie-film-fest-with-l-a-s-film-independent-exclusive-1200582312/
- ↑ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118062919/