TROUBLEMAKER
DIR. OLIVE NWOSU 2021 / NIGERIA / 11 MINS
Obi is hot, bored, and desperate for something to do. When his best friend Emeka gives him a packet of firecrackers, the boys decide to have some fun. But things escalate in unexpected ways, as Obi learns for the first time that actions have consequences, and there are still things he cannot understand.
CREDITS
Written By OLIVE NWOSU
Produced By BLESSING ONYEKWERE
Associate Produced By EMMA HALL-THOMAS & TIM JUDD
Executive Produced By THOMAS FOWLER
Edited By OLIVE NWOSU
Director of Photography TOM L. WEIR
Sound By TZVI SHERMAN
Production Design By EMMA HALL-THOMAS
Featuring CHIDERA CHIDIUME, EBUBE NDUBISI, UKAMAKA EKWENZE,
INNOCENT NWAEKE & AMARACHI OKOYE
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ABOUT OLIVE NWOSU
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Olive Nwosu is a BAFTA LA 2020 scholar, Alex Sichel fellow at Columbia University School of the Arts, and one of four ‘African Promises’ directors selected for the Institut Français’ Africa-2020 program. Olive studied documentary filmmaking in Prague and worked in advertising in London, before moving to New York to attend Columbia University, where she will receive an MFA in screenwriting and directing. Her film Troublemaker has received the Best Student Film Award at Discover Film Festival in London, and played as part of the African Perspectives section at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Olive’s work is generally informed by the fragmentary nature of her life’s experiences— across various continents and identities. Themes typically focus on the place of the outsider and the African, challenging the status quo of whom and what we have grown accustomed to seeing on screen.
You can find Olive on her Instagram.