Biography

Aimiende Negbenebor Sela is an Award-Winning Producer and Writer-Director of Nigerian descent.

Embraced by a Jewish-Israeli family from the Bronx, and a Stevens Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award recipient in Arts and Humanities, she is known for several of her short films including Greek Philosophia and Chickens, SAD, Hermit, Utopia, A Day in the Life of Who, and Asa a Beautiful Girl, to name a few.

Her feature length screenplays have found a home in several competitions including as a semi-finalist at AFF, Screencraft, Cinestory, Stowe, the top 15% at Nicholls Academy, and the second round of the Sundance Writer's Lab.

As a prose writer, her work is featured in African Voices Magazine. A publication dedicated to fostering cultural understanding and awareness through literature, art, and film.

Growing up as that kid glued to The Sound of Music, back in Nigeria, to the adult now dazzled by the complexity of the characters in 12 Angry Men, films have always helped Aimiende make sense of the world. As a result, her work interrogates the human condition, but with empathy; as she truly believes we all live the same lives, just colored differently. Her boutique production company, Sela Films, was born out of this belief in order to help push the boundaries of innovation, inclusion, diversity, and creativity with a focus on humanism. The company's slogan is "inclusivity inspires creativity."
- IMDb mini biography by: ANS