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C. J. Obasi
Biography
Born and raised in small town, Owerri, Nigeria. C.J. grew up watching Hammer House Horror films and reading Stephen King novels. As a child, he developed a knack for drawing comics based on all his favourite movies and superheroes at the time. Comics which he would sell to his peers much to their delight. Much later on in life, C.J. would put aside his degree in Computer Science from the University of Nigeria (UNN) to launch into filmmaking, full time.
C.J. fondly called “Fiery” or “The Fiery One” set up his company “Fiery Film” in 2012, and soon after his friend Benjamin Stockton, a screenwriter and movie aficionado from California, and Oge Obasi (nee Ugwu) came on board to help run the company. Fiery Film latest project is the horror thriller feature film “Ojuju”, written, directed and edited by C.J. OJUJU premiered at the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), where it won The Best Nigerian Movie Award. In March 2015, C.J. won the Trailblazer Award at the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA) for his groundbreaking work with OJUJU.
C.J’s sophomore work is “O-Town” a crime thriller epic piece, which C.J. calls his “Western in an Eastern land” and describes as “his exploration into genre-filmmaking”. His favourite filmmakers are Martin Scorcese, Ousmane Sembene, Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Lars von Trier, Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Raimi, to mention only but a few.