Filmmaker Oluwaseun Babalola shares her experience searching for her missing sister in new project
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Oluwaseun Babalola is DOC NYC 40 under 40 Honoree, award-winning director, Emmy-nominated producer, exhibited photographer, and nonprofit executive director. She has produced documentaries for networks such as CNN, HBO, CNBC, PBS, Netflix, AMC, Starz, and The Africa Channel. Her passion for storytelling led her to found Kosinima, Inc., a nonprofit that provides career support for Black creatives including two short film grant funds and ṢOJU, a digital documentary series celebrating youth culture on the African continent.
How the KOSINIMA, Inc. fund is opening doors for Black womxn creatives
shado caught up with documentary filmmaker Oluwaseun Babalola to talk more about her aims, process, motivations and, in particular, how she use her film series ṢOJU as a platform for self-narration in order to challenge the stereotypes associated with the African continent. My name is Oluwaseun Babalola, people call me...