Happy Birthday To Top Nollywood Filmmaker, Dr. Chika Christian Onu
"The road to the phenomenon called Nollywood has been exciting and awesome."
~ Dr. Chika Christian Onu, famous pioneer of Nollywood.
Happy Birthday to Dr. Christian Chika Onu, one of the outstanding founding fathers and trailblazers in Nollywood.
He is famous for directing the part two of the first Nollywood blockbuster movie, "Living in Bondage" in 1993 and the bestselling "Glamour Girls" in 1994, which the famous film scholar, Prof. Jonathan Haynes called the first Nollywood romantic comedy.
Dr. Christian Chika Onu who has a PhD from the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria also studied filmmaking at the highly esteemed Colorado Film School in Denver, United States.
Described as an outstanding achiever with numerous awards since he won the first prize in the J. F. Kennedy International Essay Competition in 1973, Onu was the President of the Oak Theatre during his undergraduate years at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). He was also the Associate Editor of The Muse Departmental Magazine.
In 1979, he won the British Council Award for the Best Creative Writer (University Press); Prime Director Award by Video/Film marketers in 2002; Member, Movie Makers Hall of Fame, Abuja in 2006; Pioneer Director Award Best of the Best (BOBTV) Expo, Abuja in 2008 and many other accolades of which the most recent are the 2014 TV and Film Achievement Award by Los Angeles Nollywood Film Association (LANFA) in August and Life Time Achievement Award in Cinema by Nollywood Africa Film Critics Awards (NAFCA), Los Angeles in September, 2014.
He is the director of famous Nollywood movies, Living in Bondage 2, Glamour Girls, Peacemaker and other popular movies for which he has won many awards in Nigeria and America.
Dr. Onu is also the co-author of Naked Beauty, said to be the first Nigerian Screen play to be published and sold as book.
Dr. Chika Onu is a Director of over a hundred Nollywood movies many of which have won Awards and gained popular admiration and acclaim in America, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria. Ten of these chart bursting movies include;
Living in Bondage 2 (1994)
Glamour Girls (1995)
True Confession (1996)
Evil Genius (1997)
Karishika (1997)
Ukwa (2002)
Fire on the Mountain (2002)
Peace Maker (2003)
Submission (2003)
My In-Law (2004)
Dogs’ Meeting (2005)
Rings of fire (2005)
Python King (2006)
Sweet Potato (2011)
Great Messenger (2011)
Evil Kingdom (2013)
African Tradition (2014)
My Peace o Mind (2015)
Dangerous King (2016)
To Love a Crippled Prince (2018).
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