NADINE IBRAHIM (Nigeria)

Through the work of her mother, former Minister of Environment of Nigeria and current Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nadine has confessed that she became aware of the most disadvantaged sectors of her country and became aware of the deep corruption that Nigeria suffers. At the age of 14 she moved to the United Kingdom and a few years later began studying filmmaking at the University of Gloucestershire. In this country she made her first short film in 2015, Idéar.

In 2017 she was associate producer of the Nigerian film Hakkunde, directed by Oluseyi Asurf, which narrates the migratory process of a young man from Lagos to Kaduna. In the same year, she founded the multimedia company Naila Media, of which she is executive director, and also directed the short film Through Her Eyes. The short film tells the story of Azeeza, a 12-year-old girl who, after being kidnapped, is forced to become a suicide bomber.

In 2020 he released the documentary Marked, which at 20 minutes long is the longest short film he has ever shot, dealing with scarification in Nigeria, a widespread but taboo practice in the country. In the meantime, he has directed several short fiction films produced by Naila Media such as Tolu or I am not a corrupt, where he also deals with the complicated political panorama of Nigeria in an acidic way.