Meet Mr Umanu Elijah – Nigerian Award winning Filmmaker

Mr umanu elijah is a Nigerian fast rising filmmaker who is vast in Cinematography, Editing and Directing.
He has a National Diploma in Computer science, a degree on Digital story telling from Birmingham University and A degree on DSLR filmmaking from the British council courtesy AFRIFF .

He has created a niche for himself from his popular award wining short film Mustapha. Which got him major recognition from within Africa and beyond.

As an editor and cinematographer, he has work on many nollywood major blockbusters for top nollywood practitioners which includes, Emem Isong, Fred amata, okey ezugwu, chris eneaji, Sobe Charles, Crey Ahanonu, Uche Udoputa e.t.c

Here are some of his Recognition.

RECOGNITIONS

Two faced
Winner – AMVCA 2017 two faced

Dagger
Nominee best editor – CRMaward

iBelieve
Nominee – World Music & Film Festival Mexico

Oreva
Best African shortFilm nominee - AFRIFF

Mustapha
Nominee – Best of nollywood award
Nominee – NewYork shortfilm festival
Nominee – African international film festival
Official selection - international short film festival
Official selection - Lake city film festival
Official selection - Real time film festival (semi-finalist)



He has a production company KRYSTAL filmworks in Lagos and are into content creation, event coverage and movie production..

Watch Mustapha trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFaM3_zkw7k
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Drug convict Daniel Enemuo a Nigerian, 5 others executed in Indonesia

 Drug convict Daniel Enemuo a Nigerian citizen and 5 other foreigners from Vietnam, Malawi, Brazil and Netherlands were executed in the early hours of this morning Sunday January 18th for drug offences.

 The convicts, who were killed by firing squad, are the first people executed under new President Joko Widodo,who took office in October 2014. He signed off on the executions last month..

Brazilian Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira, was convicted of smuggling cocaine into Indonesia in 2004. Dutchman Ang Kiem Soei was arrested 8 years ago. Daniel Enemuo, 38, was also arrested in 2004

 The others executed in the Boyolali district in central Java were Namaona Denis from Malawi; Indonesian woman, Rani Andriani, and Vietnamese woman Tran Thi Bich Hanh.

Bodies of Convicts After execution...