Omorose Osagie is an award-winning Nigerian-Canadian writer and director. Her work often explores isolation, perception, and power dynamics. She enjoys using the speculative fiction genre as a vehicle to explore the world around her. As a child, she was a voracious reader and television viewer, which evolved into a love of writing and directing. Her films have screened at numerous curated screenings and international film festivals, including the Slamdance Film Festival and the Fantasia International Film Festival. 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’ Media Artists grant, and Canada Arts Council Explore and Create Program Concept to Realization grant.