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.

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