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Jadesola Osiberu is a Nigerian writer, director producer, and founder of Greoh Studios. In 2024 she was named one of the “40 Most Powerful Women in International Film” by The Hollywood Reporter along with fellow Nollywood heavyweights Mo Abudu and Funke Akindele. In 2017, Osiberu wrote and directed her first feature, Isoken, a romantic comedy-drama that won her best director at the 2018 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards and an Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director nomination. Her next film Nigerian Trade was followed by Sugar Rush (2019), then Nollywood’s 4th highest-grossing film; Ayinla (2021) based on the life of the popular Apala musician Ayinla Omowura; and Brotherhood (2022). In September 2022, Osiberu's Greoh Studios signed a three-year deal with Amazon Prime Video to develop and produce original scripted TV series and feature films. The first film from that deal, Gangs of Lagos (2023), was Amazon Prime's first film from Africa. Her upcoming film, Everything Scatter is a crime thriller that follows five young people during a day of protests in Lagos.