Nigerian-Canadian filmmaker Lucky Ejim is ANA Abuja January 2026 Guest Author
By Editor
THE Abuja Chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) will host Canada-based Nigerian filmmaker, Lucky Ejim, at its January 2026 edition of Guest Author under the theme ‘The Power of the Theatre and Film in Shaping Human Progress’. The ANA Abuja event will hold on Saturday, January 17, 2026, at Chinua Achebe International Conference Centre, Mamman Vatsa Writers Village, Mpape, Abuja.
Ejime is an award-winning Nigerian-Canadian actor, filmmaker, director, and storyteller. He’s a renowned creative whose practice bridges Nigerian and diaspora cinema. He received the 2014 Nollywood Movies Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Render to Caesar, and as co-creator and lead actor in the multiple international award-winning feature film, The Tenant, which garnered festival honours across North America.
His body of work includes major international productions like the Moby Dick miniseries, as well as critically acclaimed contemporary films such as Orah (2023), screened at major international festivals including TIFF Industry Selects.
Ejim creates work at the powerful intersection of art, culture, and social consciousness. With consistent thoroughness, his work in theatre, film, and television explores the human condition, migration, justice, identity, and the ongoing role of storytelling in society. From commanding performances to bold directorial choices, his career has always reflected the deep belief that art can be a mirror and a catalyst for change.
In the first edition of Guest Author for 2026 gathering, other high-profile panellists will join Ejim in an engaging conversation through how theatre and film have shaped civilizations, confronted injustice, curated collective memory, and catalyzed human progress from ancient communal storytelling traditions to today’s world cinema. From his experience and creative practice, he will shed light on how performance remains one of humanity’s most enduring tools for empathy, resistance, and renewal.
Like all the monthly ANA Abuja gatherings, this one will be an opportunity for writers, dramatists, filmmakers, students, and lovers of the arts get to rethink the power of storytelling, voice, and performance in shaping who we are and who we can become.
It will be a session of unforgettable encounter with this powerful storyteller whose works have thus far proved that when art speaks in loud tones, societies listen and evolve.
