Biography

Kenneth Gyang has gained international recognition as one of a younger generation of savvy Nigerian filmmakers. His works have appeared at the New York African Film Festival, the Pan African Film Festival, Carthage Film Festival, Cascade Festival of African Films and the Africa International Film Festival.

He received a grant from the Hubert Bals Fund to produce the postmodernist low-budget dark comedy Confusion Na Wa, winning the Jury Prize at the Pan African Festival in LA and Best Film at the African Movie Academy Awards. The Lost Cafe, his second feature, won the Golden Palm Award for Narrative Feature at the Mexico International Film Festival. The film was also the Audience Prize winner at Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) in Nigeria.

Apart from making independent cinema, Kenneth has worked in the continent's mainstream, directing some of the most successful Netflix Originals from Nigeria. Oloture, his third feature, premiered at Carthage Film Festival before becoming Nigeria's first breakout film on Netflix followed by the more successful series Blood Sisters, and recently Far From Home. His latest features THIS IS LAGOS and Mojisola were Official Selections at the 2023 Africa International Film Festival and the 2024 Pan African Film Festival. Both features were produced with Nigerian independent company Cinema Kpatakpata, a Film Collective he co-founded.

Kenneth has worked with the BBC and was an AFS Fellow at University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. He has been selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus, Durban FilmMart and Rotterdam Film Lab. His current project, El Dorado Road, has undergone development at Ouaga Film Lab and EAVE Producers Workshop.

He is an Institute of International Education's GTLF grant winner.
- IMDb mini biography by: Kenneth Gyang