20 Facts About Ngozi Onwurah

Ngozi Onwurah was born on 1966 and is a British-Nigerian film director, producer, model, and lecturer.

Ngozi Onwurah is best known as a filmmaker for her autobiographical film The Body Beautiful and her first feature film, Welcome II the Terrordome.

Ngozi Onwurah's work is reflective of the unfiltered experiences of Black Diaspora in which she was raised.

Ngozi Onwurah was born in the year 1966 in Nigeria to a Nigerian father, and a white British mother, Madge Onwurah.

Ngozi Onwurah has two siblings, Simon Onwurah and Labour MP Chi Onwurah.

Ngozi Onwurah began her studies in film at St Martin's School of Art in London.

Ngozi Onwurah eventually completed a 3-year study and graduated as a director from the UK's National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England.

Ngozi Onwurah uses controversial images and stories to display the lack of control Black women had over their bodies at this time and how that is still present in Black culture today all across the world, especially in Third World African countries.

Madge Ngozi Onwurah speaks of marrying a Nigerian man, bearing mixed race children, and having breast cancer followed by a mastectomy.

The film was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival as Ngozi Onwurah was in the United States during a promotional visit for the film.

Ngozi Onwurah used autobiographical elements, cultural memory, multiple narrators, ethnographic and experimental elements in many of her works.

Foster argues that Ngozi Onwurah's work is "a thinking and feeling cinema, a wedding of formalism and realism and something irreducibly and excessively corporeal and hyperreal".

Ngozi Onwurah feels that Onwurah replaces the traditional psychoanalytical approach in film theory with phenomelogical, therefore she focuses heavily on the body as much as the mind.

Specifically, most of Ngozi Onwurah's work is centered around the human, and often female, body.

Foster's research says that Ngozi Onwurah's film-making utilizes the human body in ways that contrast traditional ethnographic film-making that limits other forms of knowledge on bodies.

The body, in Ngozi Onwurah's work according to Foster, is created through a duality.

Scholar Julian Stringer has opined that Ngozi Onwurah's film-making poses complex questions surrounding identity politics, a convention in other forms of black cinema.

Stringer argues that Ngozi Onwurah has become an example of how diverse Black female film-making can be.

Ngozi Onwurah is the first Black British woman whose feature film was released theatrically in the United Kingdom.

Ngozi Onwurah's work is being used as educational material for aspiring film-makers.