Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima

Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima is the Founder/Festival Director of Eko International Film Festival. He created the film festival in August 2009 and invited Mr. Hope Obioma Opara to join him as the President/Co-founder. Mr. Hope Obioma Opara registered Eko International Film Festival under his Supple Communications Limited in September 2009.

 

Michael Chima is an award-winning Nigerian writer, and producer. He is a member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC), and the Online News Association (ONA), New York, USA. He is the CEO of International Digital Post Network (IDPN), LLC and also the President/CEO of King of Kings Books International, a duly registered publishing company in Nigeria that launched the first King of Kings Books International National Literary Scholarship Essay Competition for Secondary Schools in Nigeria held at the University of Lagos on June 30, 2003.

 

Chima was a prolific scriptwriter of puppet drama for the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Lagos, from 1980-84, a Public Health Illustrator for the Johns Hopkins University's Population Communication Services (JHU/PCS) and for the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Seattle, USA, between 1984 and 1990. He was the Art editor of Kiddies World magazine (1987-1990), UNICEF's Program Consultant (1988/89), Studio Artist and the Editor of Affections International magazine.

In 1993, he became the IEC Officer of the Center for Education on Population, AIDS, and Drug Abuse (CEPADA), when he was the curator and national coordinator of the Nigerian Network of NGOs (NNNGO) 1993 World AIDS Day Art Exhibition at the National Museum and National Theatre in Lagos. He left CEPADA to become the Editor of Affections International magazine in 1997 and in 1998 became the Production Manager of "Money Wise" on DBN TV, Lagos, Nigeria till the year 2000. Since 2000 to date, Chima has been self-employed as an independent Producer and Director of TV/ Film and Music.

 

Chima is a prolific writer of novels (awaiting publication), plays, poems, songs, short stories, essays, and commentaries. Krystal Books published his first book "Children of Heaven and Other Poems" in 1987 that was well reviewed in The Guardian, The Punch, and Radio Nigeria and on NTA News.

 

He has produced and directed "Sleepless Night" on stage in July 2002; sponsored by Dele Momodu the publisher of Ovation International magazine, the French Cultural Centre and the United Artists for Human Development (UAHD) and "She Comes on Sundays" a musical CD (2003) broadcast on the BBC in April 2003. He is currently working on a feature documentary, entitled, "Winds of Fire, Winds of Change: New Dawn in the Niger Delta" and a film, "Naked Beauty" on Bonny Island in Nigeria. He has also started the research for a film on "Mary Slessor" the legendary Scottish missionary who fought and stopped the ritual killings of twins among the primitive natives of Calabar and Akwa Ibom in South Eastern Nigeria in the 19th century. Chima is the Publisher and Editor of the Nigerian Times International Online Media Network of 7 websites and over 29 blogs. He is also the Managing Editor of the Fashion, Modeling, and Beauty (FM&B) magazine and writes for other international magazines. He is the author of "Children of Heaven", 1988 , "Scarlet Tears of London", 2006, "Memories of a Refugee Child", 2007, "Bye Bye Mugabe", 2007, and the editor of "The Language of True Love", 2006. His next book is on President Brack Obama, the first Black President of the United States of America.

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