CANDICE ONYEAMA
Candice is a Nigerian-British screenwriter and filmmaker based between Berlin and London. Her shorts have screened at international festivals around the world including the BFI London Film Festival, Aesthetica Film Festival, Roving Eye, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Atlanta Film festival, Encounters and many others. Her work has been distributed on a range of platforms including the BFI Player and Blavity TV across Apple and Roku. She was a 2nd unit director across 6 episodes of the first series of Steve Knight’s SAS ROGUE HEROES for the BBC. Candice is currently writing in the feature film space. She is developing a period horror feature VAMPIRES with Erebus Pictures (HOARD, BONUS TRACK). She’s also developing two other feature projects including a coming-of-age fantasy drama I AM MESSIAH, and a psychological horror ANOTHER I (ranked in the top 15% of nearly 6000 submissions to the Academy Nicholl Fellowships 2022). Candice is the founder of Genesis Child Productions, a UK based film company with a focus on powerful stories told by women of African descent and the diaspora. She is represented for her work in Germany by the Paper Cuts Agency.
