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Obi Emelonye is a Nigerian film director. He is known for directing award-winning films such as Last Flight to Abuja, The Mirror Boy, and Onye Ozi.
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Director
Country
Nigeria
Born
Mar 24, 1967 (59)
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Safari (2025)
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Obi Emelonye is a Nigerian film director. He is known for directing award-winning films such as Last Flight to Abuja, The Mirror Boy, and Onye Ozi.
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Birth Date
Mar 24, 1967
Age
59 years old
Place of Birth
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Country
Nigeria
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Director
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Director
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Awards
3 wins, 6 nominations
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Honors
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Year
2015
AMVCA 3
Best Indigenous Language (Igbo)
Year
2013
AMVCA 1
Best Movie Director
Year
2013
AMVCA 1
Best Writer (Drama)
Year
2023
AMVCA 9
Best Director
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2014
AMVCA 2
Best Movie Director
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2013
AMVCA 1
Best Sound Editor
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Tunde Babalola
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1 shared title
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When the disenchanted wife of a Nigerian politician visits Kenya on a safari vacation, she becomes entangled with a local 'beach boy' who is accused of the gruesome murder of a British tourist.
Jun 2012
Netflix
On board the last flight of Flamingo Airways from Lagos to Abuja, it is a Friday night in 2006. The plane leaves on time and everything goes well until disaster strikes. While the pilots try to regain control of the flight, flashbacks reveal the reasons why each passenger took the flight and now have to face their destiny. It is based on a true story.
Sep 2024
Prime Video
A struggling actor’s career and family are put in jeopardy when cyber-criminals attempt to blackmail him over his internet history.
Jul 2024
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An Igbo elder, must challenge custom as he attempts to stop the ancient tradition of burying elders with their servants, putting his own life on the line and risk, for his own servant, the very evil that he is trying to stop.
Jul 2022
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Ojemba, a poor man, becomes rich after he performs a kind deed. However, he is so afraid to use the money that neither he nor his family is allowed to enjoy the wealth.
Jul 2021
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When Ani leaves his wife, a 2 year old daughter and an unborn son back in Nigeria in search for a better life in New York City, he suddenly vanishes without a trace. 25 years later, he returns to reclaim his wife and family but nothing is the same as everyone thought he was dead, and his family is in the hands of another man.
Jun 2021
Prime Video
A flawed Army general attempts to guide an African country through a viciously strained era of political unrest.