Segun Emmanuel Oguntola

Segun Emmanuel Oguntola is a UK based writer director. He was born in Greenwich, London in 1972. In 2003 Segun wrote and directed the 10-part detective series Banjul Cops that has been licensed since 2003 to TV networks around the world. Segun has written and directed a number of feature-length video dramas including the award winning HIV film 'Prevention' which was financed by The World Bank and screened at the 2006 Pan African Film Festival in LA. Segun also wrote and directed the very first feature-length Gambian film to be acted in the local language but fully subtitled in English. The film Lou Weey Def (What Ever You Do) gave birth to a series of subtitled local language films that were widely distributed across the subcontinent via South Africa's satellite broadcaster SABC. Segun has directed several documentary, information and commercial video projects for organisations ranging from Western Union to Shell Oil. Having established a film industry in the Gambia, Segun returned to his birth country the UK to write and direct outstanding TV and film projects. Along the way Segun has delivered several community-based filmmaking projects for young people and is the director behind all of JCCLMI's creative output.