Ishaya’s passion for filmmaking cuts across fiction and documentary narratives. He studied filmmaking at the London Film School where he graduated with a distinction and has since gone on to direct over a dozen short films and two award winning documentary shorts. His films have been screened at film festivals in Seattle, Durban, New York, London, Lagos and Clermont-Ferrand.

Ishaya’s feature film debut came in 2015 with the romantic thriller, ‘Road to Yesterday’ which won the Best Film (West Africa) at the 2016 Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards (AMVCA). His second feature, ‘The Royal Hibiscus Hotel’ is a romantic comedy that premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.

Ishaya lives in Abuja, Nigeria and works wherever his film projects take him.

A multimedia developer by training, Ummi has worked on non-fictional narratives including ‘Gender & Urban Poverty’, a video series advocating for the rights of women and girls in the settlements surrounding the FCT, ‘Where Are the Women?’, a documentary on the role of women in conflict resolution, ‘Silent Tears’, a documentary on Gender Based Violence in the FCT and ‘Uprooted’, a documentary that sheds light on changing gender norms and cultural practices as a result of the Boko-Haram conflict in Borno State. She is currently the Executive Producer of ‘4th Republic’ a political thriller that addresses good governance and the importance of a strong and fair judiciary in any democracy.

As a game designer and developer, her work includes motion sensor games used for tourism and medical rehabilitation, web based games used for advocacy on the impact of healthy eating, as well as mobile educational children’s books used to improve vocabulary. She is currently working on a mobile game that’s aimed at increasing civic responsibility.

Emil B. Garuba is a screenwriter, creative consultant, director and producer. His work spans feature films, short films, documentaries, and television shows including the 2015 AFRIFF Audience Choice Award winning documentary Silent Tears, M-Net Africa’s first soap opera Tinsel, and the Africa Magic Original movies Moving On and Lovestruck. He has worked as a script editor on nine award-winning short film for the Nigeria Integrity Film Awards platform (HOMEVIDA) and as a story consultant on the hit television series Sons of the Caliphate for EbonyLife TV.

Emil is the co-writer of the 2016 AMVCA winning Feature Film Road to Yesterdayand in 2019 co-wrote Lionheart, the first Netflix Original film from Nigeria.

Emil co-wrote the Political Drama 4th Republic, funded by the MacArthur Foundation.

Bem is a committed creative film and TV producer with credit covering drama, documentaries and commercials. He is the founder of TAKE 7 MEDIA, a film and TV production company based in Abuja, Nigeria. He produced season 2 of the hit EbonyLife TV series SONS OF THE CALIPHATE and the brand new telenovela HALITA for Africa Magic on M-net. Bem produced the award-winning docudrama ONE SMALL STEP funded by the Ford Foundation, the political short film A NEW DAWN for the Nigerian Women Trust Fund, and nine award-winning short films under the Nigerian Integrity Film Awards platform (HOMEVIDA). He worked as a production manager on SILENT TEARS, an OSIWA grant documentary on gender based violence that won the Audience Choice Award at the 5th African International Film Festival in 2015, and he was the line producer of WHERE ARE THE WOMEN, a documentary on gender inclusive conflict resolution in conflict affected states across Nigeria. Bem is also the producer of THE COLOR OF RAGE, a Thriller directed by Vigil Chime for the Nigerian cinema, and he directed STRONG REASONS, a faith based film about a young girl’s struggle to survive in a harsh environment and her road to redemption.

Bem is the producer of 4TH REPUBLIC, a Political Thriller and  MacArthur Foundation Grant film project that deals with the issues of good governance and accountability as it relates to election tribunals in Nigeria.