Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen (born 21 July 1971) is a Nigerian film director, screenwriter and film producer.[1]

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen
Born21 July 1971 (1971-07-21) (age 49)
Benin City, Nigeria
Occupationdirector, producer, screenwriter
Years active1999–present
Spouse(s)Aimua Lancelot Imasuen

Career

Imasuen has worked in the film industry since 1999 mainly as a film director and producer. He currently lives in Lagos.

His films feature unexplored aspects of the African experience including tribalism, witchcraft, crime, poverty, religion, and folk beliefs.[2]

Imasuen has plans to commence filming an epic movie titled Nogbaisi Ovonramwen in 2013. It will be about the last Oba of Benin.[3]

Nollywood Babylon

In 2008 a Canadian documentary Nollywood Babylon co-directed by Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal, and produced by AM Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada in association with the Documentary Channel, followed Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen while he was shooting his 157th film Bent Arrows.[4]

The documentary played in the Official Competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009.[5] Bent Arrows was released into the Nigerian home market in 2010.

Controversy

On the 4th of June, 2020, Nollywood actress Sylvia Oluchi accused Lancelot Imaseun Of sexual assaulting her sometimes in 2008.

Selected filmography
  • The Soul That Sinneth (1999)
  • The Last Burial (2000)
  • Private Sin (2003)
  • Enslaved (2004)
  • Moment of Truth (2005)
  • Games Men Play (2006)
  • Yahoo Millionaire (2007)
  • Sister's Love (2008)
  • Entanglement (2009)
  • Home in Exile (2010)
  • Bent Arrows (2010)
  • Adesuwa (2012)
  • Invasion 1897 (2014)
  • "ATM (Authentic Tentative Marriage)" 2016

See also

References
  1. "Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen". Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  2. Review at The AFRican Lifestyle Magazine
  3. "Imasuen sets to rewrite Benin history - Vanguard News". 13 August 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  4. National Film Board of Canada Archived 10 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Nollywood Babylon | Sundance Festival 2009". Festival.sundance.org. Retrieved 29 September 2009.



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