User:OJ Obiorah

OJ OBIORAH (Film Historian).

BA (Hons) Cinema and Media Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada.

OJ Obiorah’s research interests include experimental and avant-garde cinema; documentary film theory; the history of cinema and media studies; American populism in film and media. Major research projects include how films are used for propaganda purposes; how ideologies are promoted in films; how and why ‘’anti Hollywood’’ films and cinemas like the Third Worldist Cinema, and New Black cinema in the United States emerged.

His recent research projects in 2010 are titled: The Nigerian Video-film Industry: An Evolution from Cultural Ideological State Apparatus to a Cultural Exploitation and Extermination State Apparatus; and Black Cinema: The Emergence of Black Diasporic Film Makers.

OJ Obiorah is presently a 4th year student at York University Toronto-Canada, where he is studying Cinema and Media Studies (BA.Hons). OJ is a film: Historian; screenwriter; actor; director; editor; critic; cinematographer, and the founder and chief executive officer of Victoria Street Pictures (a film production company).

Short films and art-videos include: Gone too Soon (2009); Hotel Saint Lucia (2009); An OJ Obiorah Film (2010); Home (2010); My darling Media (2010); Whites were Blacks (2011). He was also a permanent member of the lighting crew for seven short films at the Hart House Film Board (University of Toronto). OJ is currently producing his first feature film which is titled: The Black Genesis.

As a film maker, OJ Obiorah chooses to use his films to inspire an intellectual debate. OJ Obiorah describes himself as an intellectual film maker who uses his ‘’Nigerian Expressionism’’ films as a tool to expose social inequality as well as racial injustice.