Nigerian Film Producer.

Oge OBASI is Film Producer (Fiery Film Company & 20 Pounds Production).

Sometimes credited as / parfois créditée sous le nom de
Oge UGWU

She is known for MAMI WATA (2023, Producer), HELLO RAIN.

Oge Obasi has a production experience spanning almost a decade; having worked on various formats for TV and film, on such projects as The Figurine, Amstel Malta Box Office, Miss Earth Nigeria, Heineken's Champion's Planet, Desperate Housewives Africa, and MTV Base Shuga where she worked in the capacities of production coordinator and production manager.

Oge is the partner and production head at Fiery Film Company; a production company founded in 2012 by filmmaker C.J. Obasi to create genre-based films from an African perspective. With Fiery Film, Oge produced the acclaimed zero-budget zombie feature "Ojuju", which won the "Best Nigerian Film" award at the Africa International Film Festival 2014, and screened in festivals such as Fantasia Film Festival, Africa in Motion, and almost twenty other film festivals, and has been optioned for series production by a major Hollywood studio. She also produced the semi- autobiographical gangster saga "O-Town", which was an official selection at the Goteborg Film Festival, and received 3 nominations at the 2016 Africa Movie Academy Awards - Best Nigerian Film, Best Promising Actress and Achievement in Soundtrack, and winning in the latter. Oge, through Fiery Film executive produced the section of the anthology short Visions called called "Bruja". Visions is an anthology short written, produced and directed by Surreal16 - a cinema collective from Nigeria, made up of filmmakers Abba T. Makama, C.J. Obasi and Michael Omonua, who through a 16-point manifesto have pledged to challenge the cinema narrative coming out of Nigeria.

The short film "Hello, Rain" - based on "Hello, Moto" by World Fantasy, Nebula and Hugo award winning Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor world premiered in the Oscar-qualifying International Competition of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, followed by a North American premiere in Fantasia Film Festival where it received the Special Mention of the Jury prize. Hello, Rain has also been nominated for the Short Film Award at the 2018 BFI London Film Festival.

She produced Juju Stories, a Franco-Nigerian anthology film which had its world premiere in the International Competition of Locarno Film Festival, and won the Boccalino D'Oro Award for Best Film. Juju Stories has since screened in many festivals, including the BFI London Film Festival, FESPACO, Indie Memphis and AFRIFF, where it won Best Director(s) Award for the trio of directors. Juju Stories was released theatrically by CanalOlympia across 12 African countries on October 29, 2021.

Her latest project is Mami Wata (2023) - a female-driven revenge thriller based on the Mermaid Goddess folklore of West Africa, directed by C.J. "Fiery" Obasi. Mami Wata was developed with Ouaga Film Lab, the European AudioVisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) Producers, Le Groupe Ouest's Less is More, Durban Film Mart (DFM), and has been presented at Final Cut in Venice, and Yennenga Post- Production Workshop in FESPACO, where it received the Post- Production Grant from the Red Sea International Film Festival.

Mami Wata premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Cinematography.
It won 3 awards at 2023 FESPACO (Ouaga - Burkina Faso): the prestigious Paulin Vieyra Prize (African Critics Award), the Cinematography Award (for Lílis Soares) and the Set Design Award), for Fiery Obasi. The feature was a Golden Stallion (Etalon de Yennenga) nominee.




FILMOGRAPHY / FILMMOGRAPHIE :

(2015) Desperate Housewives Africa
(TV Series / Série télévisée, 20 Episodes)
/// Production Manager / Direction de production

(2009) The Figurine
/// Assistant production manager / Assistante Direction de production (as Oge Ugwu)

(2023) Mami Wata
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée

(2021) Juju Stories
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, / Productrice

(2018) Hello, Rain
(Short / Court-métrage)
/// Producer, / Productrice

(2017) Visions
(Short / Court-métrage)
/// Executive Producer / Productrice Déléguée (segment Bruja)

(2015) O-Town
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)

(2015) Shuga
(TV Series / Série télévisée, 6 Episodes)
/// Production coordinator / Coordinatrice de Production, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)

(2014) Ojuju
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Producer, Executive Producer / Productrice, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)

(2014) October 1
Feature / Long Métrage Fiction
/// Production coordinator / Coordinatrice de Production, Productrice Déléguée (as Oge Ugwu)



Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
- Africiné Magazine
- https://twitter.com/simplyoge
- https://afieryfilm.com/about-us/
- www.imdb.com/name/nm6136298/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 19 July 2023