Years active 2002 - present Siblings Anthony Onah Education Wesleyan University | Role Filmmaker Name Julius Onah | |
Born February 10, 1983 (age 41) ( 1983-02-10 ) Occupation film director, producer, screenwriter and actor Movies The Girl Is in Trouble, Big Man, Szmolinsky, Porcelain & Diamonds Similar People Anthony Onah, Columbus Short, Alicja Bachleda‑Curus, Wilmer Valderrama, Miriam Colon | ||
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Julius Onah (born February 10, 1983) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker based in New York City.
Contents
- The girl is in trouble official trailer 2015 julius onah hd
- Sys podcast episode 075 screenwriters julius onah mayuran tiruchelvam talk about their new film
- Early life
- Career
- Open Continents
- References
Sys podcast episode 075 screenwriters julius onah mayuran tiruchelvam talk about their new film
Early life
Onah was born in Makurdi, Benue State in Nigeria. He was raised in the Philippines, Nigeria, Togo and the United Kingdom before moving to Arlington County, Virginia with his diplomat father, Adoga Onah. Onah graduated from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, VA and received his B.A. in theater from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He completed an M.F.A. from the graduate film program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where he was selected as a Dean's Fellow. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship..
His twin brother, Anthony Onah, is also a director, with his first feature film The Price released in 2017.
Career
Onah’s work has screened at festivals around the world including Berlin, London, Dubai, Los Angeles, Melbourne and Camerimage. In the summer of 2010, he was selected as one of Filmmaker magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film and in 2013 as one of Studio System's 10 Up and Up Feature Directors. While at NYU’s graduate film program he completed his first feature as his thesis, The Girl Is in Trouble (2015) with executive producer Spike Lee, featuring Alicja Bachleda, Wilmer Valderrama, Columbus Short, and Jesse Spencer. Onah was previously set to direct thriller film adaptation Brilliance for Legendary Pictures which David Koepp scripted with Will Smith and Noomi Rapace to star as leads. He is currently in post-production on God Particle (2018) with producer J. J. Abrams and Paramount Pictures.
Open Continents
Open Continents is a global media project comprising Onah's short, feature, music video and television work.