Ngozi Onwurah is a British-Nigerian film director. She is best known for her first feature film, Welcome II the Terrordome, which was the first film directed by a Black woman to receive theatrical distribution in the UK. She is also known for her autobiographical film The Body Beautiful, which was also the first independent Black British feature film to be released.
Ngozi Onwurah
London, UK
Films
Welcome II The Terrordome
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(1995)
Black people have been relegated to living in a slum called the Terrordome, where simmering racial tension threatens to boil over in the wake of a young boy’s death.
The Body Beautiful
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(1991)
The story of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her relationship with her Black daughter who begins a modeling career.
Coffee Coloured Children
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(1988)
An intimate experimental monologue about the trauma of racial harassment and self-hate that accompanies growing up mixed-race, this short film examines the complexity of Britain's racial 'melting pot'.
