Candice Onyeama
Vertreten durch:
Marinus Viktor
Kontakt:
+49 (0) 160 5955 631
marinus.viktor@
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Candice Onyeama is an award-winning Nigerian-British writer, filmmaker and storyteller based between Berlin and London. Her short films have screened at international festivals around the world, including the BFI London Film Festival, Aesthetica Film Festival, Roving Eye, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, and many others. Her work has been distributed on various platforms, including the BFI Player and Blavity TV across Apple and Roku.
Her television work includes 2nd unit direction across six episodes of the first series of Steve Knight’s ‚SAS: Rogue Heroes‘, for the BBC. She was also part of a writer’s room led by production company Action Concept for the German broadcaster ZDF.
Find out more about Candice and her upcoming projects here.
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Candice recently completed an audio storytelling intensive with Audible and is currently developing stories across multimedia platforms, including an audio thriller series entitled RIDERS, a horror feature film with Erebus Pictures, and an adaptation of her debut feature script, ANOTHER I (ranked in the top 15% of nearly 6000 submissions to the Academy Nicholl Fellowships 2022) into a novel.
Candice is the founder of inclusive film company Genesis Child Productions and also delivers authentic storytelling workshops for emerging writers and filmmakers in Berlin.
Screenwriter
Vertreten durch: Marinus Viktor
Kontakt: +49 (0) 160 5955 631
marinus.viktor@papercuts-agency.com
In Development (Selection)
RABELADES
Format: Feature
Genre: German set immersive documentary
Director: Candice Onyeama
Production: Genesis Child
ANOTHER I
Format: Feature
Genre: Psychological Horror
Director: Candice Onyeama
Writer: Candice Onyeama
Production: TBA
Festivals and Awards:
– Ranked top 15% of 6000 submissions to the Nicholls Academy screenwriting Fellowship 2022
VAMPIRES
Format: Feature
Genre: Horror
Director: Candice Onyeama
Writer: Candice Onyeama
Production : Erebus Pictures
I AM MESSIAH
Format: Feature
Genre: Fantasy drama
Director: Candice Onyeama
Writer: Candice Onyeama
Production: TBA
RIDERS
Format: TV
Genre: Action Drama
Director: Candice Onyeama
Writer: Candice Onyeama
Filmography (Selection)
2023 – HERZKINO SMART REIHE
Format: TV movie
Genre: RomCom
Writer´s Room: Candice Onyeama
Production: ZDF
2022 – I DO NOT COME TO YOU BY CHANCE
Format: Feature
Treatment Writer: Candice Onyeama
Novel: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Production: T.E.N. Limited
2021 – SAS ROGUE HEROES – SERIES 1
Format: TV series
Director: Tom Shankland
2nd Unit Director for 6 episodes: Candice Onyeama
Screenplay: Steven Knight
Production: BBC/Kudos
Producer: Stephen Smallwood
2020 – DEADLY DISASTERS
Format: Factual TV series
Screenplay: Candice Onyeama
Production: CIC Media, BBC Earth
2020 – BORN AGAIN
Format: Short Film
Director: Candice Onyeama
Writer: Candice Onyeama
Production: Genesis Child, BFI Network
Producer: Nicola Gregory
Festivals & Awards:
– Winner: Shooting People’s New Shoots Award, 2020
– Honourable Mention: Best Narrative Short, Atlanta Film Festival 2020
– Official Selection: Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival,2020
– Official Selection: Aesthetica 2020
– Official Selection Norwich Film Festival, 2020
– Official Selection Bolton Film Festival, 2020
– BFI London Film festival, 2020
2020 – UNCLE MIKE
Format: Short Film
Director: Neil Anwhan
Writer: Candice Onyeama
Production: Orchard Cancer Charity (commissioned by OCC)
Producer: Ali Orhan
Festivals & Awards:
– Winner: Best Story Award, Thundr Short Film Showcase, 2020
– Finalist: Awareness Festival, 2020 Official Selection: Baltimore
– International Black Film Festival, 2020
– Official Selection: UK Monthly Film Festival, 2021
– Honours List: Women X Festival, 2020
2019 – MY VOICE
Format: Short film
Genre: Educational short film
Writer, Director & Producer: Candice Onyeama
Production: Genesis Child (commissioned by Into Films)
2017 – ONCE AN OLD LADY SAT ON MY CHEST
Format: Short Film
Director: Candice Onyeama
Screenplay: Candice Onyeama
Production: Genesis Child Productions and P for Production
Producer: Candice Onyeama and Nicola Gregory
Festivals & Awards:
– Baobab nominee at Film Africa 2018
– Best screenplay nominee at Underwire Film Festival
– Audience award winner at Black Culture Film Festival
– Official festival selection: Women of the lens, SOUL, Film Africa, East End film festival, Afrykamera, WADFF
– Distributed on BFI Player
– Part of TAPE collective’s ‘BUT WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM’ UK film series tour
2016 – HUSH
Format: Short Film
Director: Alex j Campbell
Writer: Candice Onyeama
Production: Genesis Child
Producer: Candice Onyeama
Festivals & Awards:
– Winner: Best Screenplay, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora, 2016
– Winner: Best Short Film, British Urban Film Festival 2016