Ngozi Onwurah

Biography

Graduated as a director from the UK's National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield. Her first short film, 'Coffee Coloured Children', achieved international film festival success and won first prize in the BBC Showreel competition. More success and awards followed with further dramas and documentaries for a number of UK and international broadcasters including 'South of the Border', a groundbreaking series for the BBC. She was awarded the prestigious honour of special retrospective screenings at the New York Film Festival, including 'The Body Beautiful', one of the UK's most commercially successful short films. Her first feature film, 'Welcome II The Terrordome', won first prize at the Birmingham International Film Festival, the Cologne Film Festival and the audience prize at the Verona Film Festival. Ngozi has also directed an episode of 'Heartbeat' for ITV, the top-rated UK drama series with an audience of over 18 million.

Directed

1. Heartbeat (1992) — Director
2. The Body Beautiful (1991) — Director
3. Welcome II the Terrordome (1995) — Director
4. Shoot the Messenger (2006) — Director
5. White Men Are Cracking Up (1996) — Director
6. Coffee Coloured Children (1988) — Director
7. And Still I Rise (1992) — Director
8. The Desired Number (1995) — Director
9. Flight of the Swan (1992) — Director
10. Hang Time (2001) — Director
11. I Bring You Frankincense (1996) — Director
12. Monday's Girls (1993) — Director
13. Mama Africa (2002) — Director
14. South of the Border (1988) — Director
15. Neighborhood Alert (2024) — Director
16. Under the Sun (1989) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Coffee Coloured Children (1988)
2. Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema (2002) — Self