by Jeroslyn JoVonn
January 10, 2024
Emmy Award-winning director Nneka Onuorah is proud to announce her first-look take care of Amazon MGM Studios.
Emmy Award-winning director Nneka Onuorah has inked a first-look take care of Amazon MGM Studios.
On Tuesday, Jan. 9, the studio introduced its unique first-look TV and movie take care of “Lizzo’s Watch Out For the Huge Grrrls” director, Selection studies. Onuorah, 36, joins Amazon Studios after profitable a 2022 Primetime Emmy Award for Excellent Directing for a Actuality Program for her work on Lizzo’s documentary.
“It’s an honor to be part of the inventive cloth of what Jen and her group are constructing at Amazon,” Onuorah advised Deadline.
“I’m pleased with the groundbreaking tales that we’re already telling collectively, and excited to proceed my inventive journey into scripted collection and movies with Amazon as nicely.”
Amazon cites Onuorah’s award-winning work and notability that ignited following her directorial debut, “The Similar Distinction,” about gender roles within the Black lesbian neighborhood. The Nigerian-American filmmaker, producer, and activist is regarded for her dedication to telling tales that amplify underrepresented communities.
“Nneka has a observe document of crafting tales that excite, intrigue, and encourage,” Vernon Sanders, Amazon MGM Studios’ head of tv, mentioned. “This can be a course of we’ve been lucky to expertise firsthand, and we can not wait to reignite our skilled relationship below this formal deal.”
Onuorah additional celebrated the brand new deal after asserting the massive information on Instagram.
“Oh you already know it’s about to be some superb ground-breaking stuff coming your means,” she wrote in her caption. “Past excited for this partnership with Amazon. The easiest is but to come back such as you’ve by no means seen it earlier than.”
Onuorah’s latest directorial work was twice nominated for “Excellent Documentary” on the GLAAD Media Awards, together with 2017’s “The Similar Distinction” and 2022’s “The Legend of the Underground,” produced by John Legend about Nigerian youth who problem their nation’s discriminatory anti-LGBTQ legal guidelines.
The Queens natives’ different credit embody Netflix’s prison-themed “First and Final,” Viceland’s “Black-,” queer-focused “My Home,” and ”The G Phrase,” produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Greater Floor Productions.
