Kathryn Fasegha

Kathryn is an award-winning filmmaker based in Calgary, Alberta. Her first feature film "Treacherous Heart" Premiered at Cineplex Chinook Centre, Calgary in 2012. Written and directed by Kathryn, Treacherous has been screened at various cinemas and venues across Canada, as well as in festivals like Black Women Film Festival Atlanta and Reelworld Film Festival, Toronto. The film was nominated for awards in several categories at the Nollywood and African Film Critics' Awards (NAFCA) in 2012 and won the award of "Best Drama in Diaspora". In the course of her career, Kathryn has worked in various fields and in ministry, she has been involved in Drama Evangelism for the past 23 years, setting up drama evangelism ministries in churches in Warri, Nigeria; Muscat, Oman; Calgary, Canada; and most recently at RCCG Olive Tree Parish, Lagos, Nigeria. Kathryn's second feature film "2 Weeks in Lagos" had a market premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 and screened at the Pan African International Film Festival, Los Angeles and the New York African Diaspora International Film Festival, New York. "2 Weeks in Lagos" opened in Cinemas across West Africa in February 2021 and made its Netflix debut in July 2021. "2 Weeks in Lagos" was nominated for an AMAA (Africa Movie Academy Awards) 2020 award for "Best film by an African Living abroad". Kathryn has two feature films "2 Weeks in Calgary" and "Last Flight from Lagos" and three TV series in development. Kathryn is a Theatre Arts graduate who started out writing and directing drama for television in Nigeria's entertainment industry of the late eighties. She is the Film Coordinator for African Women Acting (AWA), Toronto, Canada; She is also a member of Film Fatales Canada; the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF), Women in Film and Television Toronto (WIFTT), Women in Film and Television Alberta (WIFTA) and the current president of Black Actors and Film Guild Canada, Alberta chapter. Kathryn received the "Global Woman of Vision" Award from Global TV, Calgary, in June 2012.