Omorose Osagie is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and director. Her work often explores isolation, perception, and power dynamics between communities, institutions and individuals. She enjoys using the speculative fiction genre as a vehicle to explore real world issues. Her passion for directing started from a love of stories. She was a voracious reader and television viewer as a child, which evolved into a love of writing and directing. She has received the jury prize for Best Animation at the Essence Film Festival, and her films have screened at the Fantasia International Film Festival and other festivals across North America. She was selected for the Vancouver International Film Festival’s mentorship program. She studied film production at the University of British Columbia.
Omorose’s films have received the National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker Assistant Program grant, the Indigenous Screen Office’s Solidarity grant, Experimental Forest Films’ New Works grant, BC Arts Council Individual Arts’s Media Artists Grant, and Canada Arts Council Explore and Create Program Concept to Realization Grant.