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Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen (born 20 June 1971) is a Nigerian film director and film producer.[1]

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen
Born	20 June 1971 (1971-06-20) (age 51) Benin City, Nigeria
Occupation	director, producer
Years active	1995–present
Spouse	Aimua Lancelot Imasuen

Career

Imasuen has worked in the film industry since 1995 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.

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)
• ABCs of Death 2 (Segment L is for Legacy) (2014)
• "ATM (Authentic Tentative Marriage)" (2016)
• Enakhe (2020)[6]
• Gbege[7]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award ceremony	Category	Film	Result	Ref
2017	Best of Nollywood Awards	Lifetime Achievement Award	—	Won	[8]
2020	2020 Best of Nollywood Awards	Director of the Year	WEDE	Nominated	[9]

See also

• List of Nigerian film producers

References

External links

• Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen at IMDb
• Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen at AllMovie
• Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen at Rotten Tomatoes

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