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Candice Onyeama

Biography

Candice is an award-winning Nigerian-British screenwriter and filmmaker. Her shorts have won awards and screened at international festivals around the world including the BFI London Film Festival, Aesthetica Film festival, Roving Eye International Film Festival, Atlanta Film festival, Martha's Vineyard Film Festival, The New York African Film Festival and many others. Her work has been reviewed on platforms including Afropunk, Yahoo entertainment and Letterdbox and her films have been distributed on a range of platforms including BFI Iplayer, Blavity Media and UK fully focused to name a few.

Candice recently directed 2nd unit across 6 episodes of the Steve Knight penned BBC series SAS: ROGUE HEROES. She is currently in  development with Erebus pictures on a period-horror feature film project. Her spec feature script, a psychological horror ANOTHER I, recently placed in the top 15% of submissions out of nearly 6,000 at the Nicholl fellowship competion 2022. She is in development on a Nigerian set fantasy drama I AM MESSIAH and she also has two spec television pilots, RIDERS: an action drama  about an all-female, motorcycle gang set in Nigeria and TALES FROM THE VERSE: a dystopian anthology series. 

Candice is the founder of Genesis Child Production, a company with a focus on inclusive storytelling.

Candice is an award-winning Nigerian-British screenwriter and filmmaker. Her shorts have won awards and screened at international festivals around the world including the BFI London Film Festival, Aesthetica Film festival, Roving Eye International Film Festival, Atlanta Film festival, Martha's Vineyard Film Festival, The New York African Film Festival and many others. Her work has been reviewed on platforms including Afropunk, Yahoo entertainment and Letterdbox and her films have been distributed on a range of platforms including BFI Iplayer, Blavity Media and UK fully focused to name a few.

Candice recently directed 2nd unit across 6 episodes of the Steve Knight penned BBC series SAS: ROGUE HEROES. She is currently in  development with Erebus pictures on a period-horror feature film project. Her spec feature script, a psychological horror ANOTHER I, recently placed in the top 15% of submissions out of nearly 6,000 at the Nicholl fellowship competion 2022. She is in development on a Nigerian set fantasy drama I AM MESSIAH and she also has two spec television pilots, RIDERS: an action drama  about an all-female, motorcycle gang set in Nigeria and TALES FROM THE VERSE: a dystopian anthology series. 

Candice is the founder of Genesis Child Production, a company with a focus on inclusive storytelling.

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Another I
Feature
  • Horror .
  • Mystery/Suspense
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HELLO DADDY
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  • Drama .
  • Family
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I AM MESSIAH
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  • Drama .
  • Fantasy
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TALES FROM THE VERSE
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  • Science Fiction
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