NiFSTV 2024 | London Agenda

Ijeoma Onah

Founder, Nigerian International Film & TV Summit

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Moses Babatope

Group CEO, Nile Media Entertainment Group

A leading figure in the Nigerian film industry. With over 20 years of experience, he is widely regarded for his pioneering work in film distribution, exhibition, and production. Pioneering the global distribution and exhibition of African films. he has played a pivotal role in transforming Nollywood and bringing African films to global audiences. Babatope has produced and executive produced more than 40 of Nollywood's biggest titles, contributing to the industry's growth and international recognition.

Naz Onuzo

Founder Inkblot

Chinaza Onuzo is the CEO of Inkblot Studios, a leading Nigerian film and TV production company founded in 2011. Under his leadership, Inkblot has released over 25 movies, grossing nearly N2 billion, and became the first African company to sign a global output deal with Amazon Prime Video. Inkblot also produced Nigeria's first Netflix Original Young Adult Show, "Far From Home," which debuted in December 2022 to critical acclaim. As a filmmaker, Chinaza has worked on numerous films and TV shows showcased in cinemas, global streaming platforms, and festivals like the Toronto International Film Festival. His work often addresses themes such as gender, feminism, and women's roles in the workplace, presenting an aspirational vision of Nigeria.

Chinaza is also an experienced investment professional, having spent over a decade at African Capital Alliance (ACA), a major African private equity fund. He worked on transactions totaling over $1 billion in sectors like TMT, Financial Services, and Oil and Gas. Chinaza also founded Dussius Nigeria Limited, offering consulting services in the TMT space. In advocacy, he worked with various government and civil society initiatives, including the Senate Committee on Downstream Petroleum and the Creative Industry Finance Initiative. He holds an M.Sc. in Economics and Finance from Warwick Business School and degrees in English and Economics from Duke University.

Colette Otusheso

CEO Accelerate Group

Colette's a seasoned, marketing, communications and project management expert who's successfully led strategic/business planning, marketing, advertising and diverse marketing communications campaigns in various organizations like IBM, MNET Africa, Viacom International Media Networks Africa now Paramount Africa and many others.  Now the CEO of a Lagos-based multimedia content creation start-up, Accelerate (www.acceleratetv.com) The digital youth-focused content platform with the ethos to entertain, empower and educate via its 4 business Arms, Accelerate Production Studios, Accelerate Plus an African focused SVOD platform, Accelerate Creative Agency and The Phoenix Project which is fully focused on training and empowering young people in the creative sector. 

Wonuola Fasehun, FCCA.

Production Accountant/Finance Business Partner

Wonuola is a chartered accountant, investment professional, SME business consultant, and facilitator with almost 2 decades of experience across the entertainment, non-profit, financial, and professional services sectors in the UK and Nigeria. She led the media and entertainment division of ALP Professional Services Limited (ALP NG & Co, Nigeria) where she led the finance/accounting team on several productions, including a Netflix Original TV series, MTV TV series, feature films and documentaries. Her professional interests are in supporting Nigerian storytellers, by providing structures and processes that facilitate the smooth running of financial operations and reporting, of productions and the production company, as well as providing advisory for fund raising. Wonuola is committed to building the capacity of small to medium sized entrepreneurs and serves as a volunteer at non-profits, which exist for this purpose and sits on the advisory board of an independent content production company.

Bode Odetoye

CEO KHERUT Films Ltd

Bode Odetoye is an award-winning film producer and writer driven by a deep passion for the transformative power of visual images. With a mission to bring African films to a global audience, Bode's work captivates and provokes the artistic minds of viewers. Their dedication to storytelling through visual mediums breaks stereotypes, challenges perceptions, and celebrates the rich tapestry of African cultures. Through their remarkable contributions, Bode is shaping the landscape of African cinema, leaving an indelible mark on the world stage.

Tosin Otudeko

Writer/Producer, The Garden Theatre

Tosin Otudeko is a writer, poet and producer who has written for film, theatre and TV and has developed a catalogue of musical poems. She is the writer and producer of the 'Heartbeat' Musical which has further been developed with collaborators and produced by Lufodo Productions. She is the writer and producer of 'Over The Bridge' feature film (2023 release), a commissioned writer for film and series writer for TV (The Wedding Party - Netflix, E.V.E – Africa Magic DSTV, Desperate Housewives Africa –Ebony Life TV), the writer and producer for the poetry album 'For The Love of Words and Music.' The Garden Theatre was set up as a vehicle to create, perform, produce and collaborate. It has enabled her engage a variety of inspiring talent including musicians, dancers, actors, poets and singers.

Agatha Amata

CEO, Rave TV

Multiple award winning television icon, Agatha Amata is a Nigerian Media Entrepreneur, Veteran Talk show host, Seasoned speaker, Marketing Consultant, Film maker, and Philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show "Inside-Out with Agatha” and "Inside-out Extra" which gained widespread popularity due to her unconventional style of topic delivery on the show; it remains the longest running independent talk show(s) on Nigerian television with over 20years of broadcast. She is the Managing Director of Inside-Out Media Ltd, a media consultancy, and production outfit based in Lagos, Nigeria. Through it, she created RAVE TV in 2014, a youth-interactive, multi-broadcast TV platform on DTT (GOTV 113, Free TV 745, Avo TV, and Limex World TV); in 2015, Trend FM 100.9, a 24-hour radio station situated in Asaba, Delta state, Rave Films, and IOWA foundation, her not-for-profit, non-governmental organization, which she uses to communicate for change.

Kazeem Adeoti

Founder & CEO Adekaz Productions

Yemi Daramola

Film Distribution Consultant

Yemi Daramola serves as a consultant specializing in movie marketing & distribution, lending his expertise to diverse film projects across a spectrum of production budgets. Acknowledged as both a festival founder & programmer in London, his overarching mission is to make Black films captivating and accessible to a broader, multiracial global audience. Yemi's noteworthy achievements include the establishment of two prominent Black film festivals in London in the pursuit of enhancing the appeal and accessibility of Black films to a diverse audience in the city. An esteemed international speaker renowned for his insights into Nollywood, specifically in the domains of movie marketing and distribution, Yemi holds the position of Managing Director at Darimedia Distribution Ltd. Over the past five years, Yemi has consulted on a number of films both in the UK & Nigeria, he has also played pivotal role in nurturing the growth of more than twenty filmmakers both in the UK & Nigeria through mentoring and film consulting.

Don Omope

Film Executive/Story Specialist

Don Omope is an experienced script & story specialist, film director and executive producer. He published and edited the defunct African cinema magazine "African screens" for almost a decade and was a former senior studio executive overseeing the development and production of films at the entertainment group filmOne, where he produced 'The Wedding Party 1&2,' which saw theatrical releases in Nigeria, UK and 17 other countries, subsequently gaining global recognition on Netflix. His portfolio also boasts films like the celebrated 'Nolly-Noir Taxi Driver - Oko Ashewo,' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, among many other titles etc. He is the founder of Pictograph, an international story development and film production consultancy based in the UK & Nigeria and he is also currently the technical delivery partner for the British council's Africa wide producers training lab programme, FilmLab Africa.

Shantelle Rochester

Producer

Shantelle is an entrepreneur with experience in business and planning for companies and individuals which she brought to Film & TV over 15 years ago. She has spoken at the Marche de Film in Cannes Film Festival, Durban Film Festival and supported the 1st 17 strong Black delegation of filmmakers by the BFI to Berlinale in 2020. She is constantly speaking on panels and teaches workshops globally for those wanting to understand the business of film from script to screen. With her knowledge of film and connections globally she has now created the ‘Know Your Power’ which supports creatives and companies with project analysis and 1-1 in person and online access to professionals such as herself, heavily discounted so it can be accessed by low income filmmakers. She had her first in-house Award winning film ‘Two Graves’ bought by Netflix. She has worked on numerous other European films as a producer and line-producer. In 2020 under covid protocol she produced the ‘Black British Theatre Awards’ alongside Kwame Kwei-Armah for Sky Arts. She continues to work at her companies Ida Rose & The Culture Collective on a diverse slate of films, series, documentaries and digital projects in excess of 5 million pounds. She is the only candidate that has been awarded two funds via the UK Global Screen Fund Co Production /International Business awards. She is a Breakthrough Leader & Bafta Elevate alumni.

Ijeoma Onah

Founder, Nigerian International Film & TV Summit

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Steen Ingmann

Head of Business Development Cinekita Paris

Moky Makura

Executive Director, African No Filter

Moky Makura was born in Nigeria, educated in England and has lived in London, Johannesburg and Lagos. She has been a TV presenter, producer, author, publisher and a successful entrepreneur in her own right. She is currently the Executive Director of Africa No Filter, a donor collaborative focused on shifting the African narrative.  Moky started her media career as the African Anchor and field reporter for South Africa’s award-winning news and actuality show – Carte Blanche. She conceptualized, co-produced and presented a lifestyle TV series for the pan African pay TV channel MNet called “Living It”, which focused on the lifestyles of the African continent’s wealthy elite.  She also played a lead role in the groundbreaking and popular MNet Pan-African drama series Jacob’s Cross. Her book Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs with a foreword written by Richard Branson, featured on the top 10 best-selling business books in South Africa when it launched.  Moky has since compiled and published a number of non-fiction titles under her imprint MME Media. Titles include South Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs, Going Global which tells the stories of South Africa’s most successful global companies and a biography of one of its top entrepreneurs; Herman Mashaba, called Black Like You.  Moky started a fiction book series called Nollybooks aimed at getting young Africans to read, and then adapted the series for television co-producing over 21 television movies for the South African TV station etv. The books are available on Worldreader, and Okadabooks.  Watch Moky at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6EnulUQf0 (Living it promo) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDLWWP8N6MU (TED Talk on telling the African story) 

Tiwaloluwa Oladigbo . LLB, BL, MSc. MCMI, AFHEA.

Doctorial Researcher in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategy (Aberdeen Business School) Robert Gordon University.

Agnieszka Moody

Head of International Relations, British Film Institute

Agnieszka Moody is the Head of International Relations at the British Film Institute. She looks after international policy, strategy and engagement, developing and nurturing international relationships and opening opportunities for UK-based screen professionals. Agnieszka has extensive international network and in-depth understanding of international screen business and culture. She is currently working on the implementation of the international segment of the BFI’s new ten-year strategy Screen Culture 2033. Previously, Agnieszka was the Director of Creative Europe Desk UK, a promotion and information office of the European Union’s funding programme Creative Europe, where she helped hundreds of British companies secure funding for their projects from the EU and organised a range of industry events and conferences promoting co-production and wider international cooperation. In 2018, Agnieszka was seconded from the BFI to Creative Scotland where, as Interim Director of Screen, she supported the launch and the first six-months roll out of Screen Scotland, a partnership of several public agencies to promote the development of screen sector in Scotland. A graduate of the Film Production Department of the renowned Polish National Film and Television School in Lodz, she has worked on several feature films including Steven Spielberg’s Schindler's List.

Bode Odetoye

CEO KHERUT Films Ltd

Bode Odetoye is an award-winning film producer and writer driven by a deep passion for the transformative power of visual images. With a mission to bring African films to a global audience, Bode's work captivates and provokes the artistic minds of viewers. Their dedication to storytelling through visual mediums breaks stereotypes, challenges perceptions, and celebrates the rich tapestry of African cultures. Through their remarkable contributions, Bode is shaping the landscape of African cinema, leaving an indelible mark on the world stage.

Niyi Towolawi

Film Director and CEO of Hekspace Studios