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Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen (born 20 June 1971) is a Nigerian film director and film producer. Popularly known as De' Guvnor of Nollywood.[1]




Career


Imasuen has worked in the film industry since 1995, mainly as a film director and producer. He currently lives in Lagos.
His films feature unexplored aspects of the African experience including tribalism, witchcraft, crime, poverty, religion, and folk beliefs.
Imasuen has plans to commence filming an epic movie titled Nogbaisi Ovonramwen in 2013. It will be about the last Oba of Benin.




Nollywood Babylon


In 2008, a Canadian documentary, Nollywood Babylon, co-directed by Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal, and produced by AM Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada in association with the Documentary Channel, followed Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen while he was shooting his 157th film Bent Arrows.
The documentary played in the Official Competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. Bent Arrows was released into the Nigerian home market in 2010.




Selected filmography


The Soul That Sinneth (1999)
The Last Burial (2000)
Isaakaba (2001)
Private Sin (2003)
Enslaved (2004)
Moment of Truth (2005)
Games Men Play (2006)
Yahoo Millionaire (2007)
Sister's Love (2008)
Entanglement (2009)
Home in Exile (2010)
Bent Arrows (2010)
Adesuwa (2012)
Invasion 1897 (2014)
ABCs of Death 2 (Segment L is for Legacy) (2014)
"ATM (Authentic Tentative Marriage)" (2016)
Love Upon the Hills (2018)
Rant Queens (2019)
Enakhe (2020)
Mutual Benefits (2021)
For the Love of Isiuwa (2021)
Gbege (2022)
Love Under Repair (2023)
Senior Man (2023)
Issakaba Returns (2024)[2]




Awards and nominations






See also


List of Nigerian film producers




References






External links


Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen at IMDb
Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen at AllMovie
Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen at Rotten Tomatoes

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar tokoh Nigeria
• Film Nigeria Terbaik (Africa Movie Academy Award)
• Film Terbaik (Africa Movie Academy Award)
• Sutradara Terbaik (Africa Movie Academy Award)
• Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen
• Lancelot (disambiguation)
• Edo State
• Issakaba
• ABCs of Death 2
• List of Nigerian film producers
• Derico Nwamama
• List of Nigerian film directors
• Games Men Play
• The Last Burial