Onyinye is a London-based writer/director, a 2016 BBC Writer Award winner, 2022 BBC London Voices Alumna, 2023 BBC Writersroom shortlist, and was nominated for 2022 MUBI-Wscripted’s 2nd Cannes Screenplay List where her debut feature script, A Season in Talgarreg, featured at the Cannes Film Market’s Producers Network. Until June 2022, she was a shadow writer and mentee to Charlie Covell (The End of the F***ing World) on Netflix’s mythological series (KAOS) with SISTER Pictures, now in post-production.
She has directed 2 episodes of police procedural “Crime and Justice, Lagos” for South African streamer, Showmax, which won ‘Best TV Series’ at the 9th AMVCA, and is currently a participant on Directors UK Inspire 2023/2023 Cohort programme, to be mentored for the next 12 months by TV Director, Catherine Morshead.
Television
CRIME AND JUSTICE LAGOS 2023
Showmax/ Coalwater
Director 2 x 60′ episodes
Selected for BBC Writersroom London Voices 2022
KAOS 2020/21
Netflix
Lead Writer: Charlie Covell
Shadow Writer
TALENT NERVE
Original Project
SISTER Pictures Mentorship
Creator/Writer
LOST QUEENS
Original Pilot
Writer
Finalist & BBC Writer Award Winner at Triforce’s Writerslam. Pilot script performed live at St James Studio
Film
A SEASON IN TALGARREG
Feature Film (In Development)
Writer
BFI Network Launchpad (Film London MICROWAVE 2017/ Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival Talent Lab 2019)
Selected for 2022 Mubi/WScripted Cannes Screenplay List
OH GENO 2018
Short Film
Director
BAFTA 2018 screening as part of TSFF, Everyman Cinema Hampstead & Curzon Bloomsbury (limited theatrical releases), Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2018, London Short Film Festival 2019.
WAKING AT DAWN
Short Film
Writer and Director
39th Annual Student Academy Awards, LUCAS Int’lFilm Festival, Chicago Children’s Int’l Film Festival,
London Short Film Festival. Nominated for “Best Script” at Grand OFF World Film Festival
ONE DAY REMEMBERING
Short Film 35mm
Writer and Director
British Film Institute Foreign Shorts Festival