Branwen Okpako

Prof. Branwen Kiemute Okpako (born 25 February 1969), is a Nigerian–born Welsh German filmmaker. She is most notable as the director of critically acclaimed films The Education of Auma Obama, Dirt for Dinner and Landing. Apart from direction, she is also a writer, producer, cinematographer, film editor as well as a lecturer.

Personal life She was born on 25 February 1969 in Lagos, Nigeria.

She was married to Johannes Brandrup, where they later divorced.

Career While in the final year of the DFFB, she produced her maiden short film Dreckfresser in 2000.

In 2003, she made the fiction feature Tal der Ahnungslosen. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in the same year and included in the feature film competition at Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in 2005. With the success of first two films, she made the documentary film Die Geschichte der Auma Obama in 2011, where the film received Viewers Choice Award at the Africa International Film Festival. In 2012, the film won Africa Movie Academy Awards for Best Diaspora Documentary as well as the Festival Founders Award for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles.

2017 A Hotel Called Memory Writer Film