Biography

A highly celebrated Nigerian Film Director, Screenwriter and Producer.

Ike's new film No U-Turn received a Special Mention Award at Berlin International Festival - Berlinale 2022.

In No U-turn, a mid-aged multi-award winning Nigerian filmmaker; (Ike Nnaebue) goes on a mission to re-live his early adulthood experience of trying to travel to Europe by road.

No U-Turn was commissioned by ARTE with additional funding from World Cinema Fund (WCF), CNC Selective Fund, Region Ile de France and Deutsche Welle. Ike received the prestigious Artistic Bravery Award from the Durban International Film Festival 2022.

Ike is the Founder and CEO of LP House of Creative, building a network of Creative Spaces across Africa and some select cities around the globe to create safe spaces for African Creatives to thrive. He is also the founder of Passion8 Communications Ltd, a premium media content production company based in Lagos Nigeria.

He is fondly regarded as one of the champions of the emerging new African cinema.

Ike's 1st commercial film "FALSE" continues to generate lots of buzz within the film community and among African movie fans. FALSE which Ike wrote and Directed was released in Oct 2013 and won a Golden Icon Academy Award (GIAMA) that same year out of the 3 nominations which the movie received. False went on to receive 12 nominations at Nollywood Movie Awards that same year, making it the highest nominated movie of the year.

Ike's recent film, Sink or Swim won Best Narrative Feature at the 2017 Newark International Film Festival and has received several nominations and official selections at notable international film festivals around the globe. Sink or Swim is an epic; thought provoking movie about illegal migration and human trafficking. The film has an Inter-Continental cast which is drawn from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Zambia and Cote D'Ivoire.

In 2018, Ike Nnaebue's Loving Daniella; a film about love and mental illness earned three nominations at the Las Vegas Black Film Festival and claimed the Best Actress trophy. Loving Daniella was released in the Caribbean and Nigerian Cinemas same year.

Ike is the founder of Treasurewells Academy and the Host of Breaking into Nollywood with Ike Nnaebue Workshop which he has successfully hosted in Lagos, New York, Atlanta (twice) And Dallas (twice). Ike is also very passionate about sharing with young African the know-how of Smartphone Filmmaking.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ike Nnaebue