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Lorenzo Menakaya

Lorenzo Menakaya

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Lorenzo Menakaya is a Nigerian on-air personality, actor, filmmaker and singer. Lorenzo's powerful vocal presence earned him nominations for the On-Air Personality (OAP) of the year at The Future Awards Africa (TFA) 2011 and 2012; in 2016, he won the Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards for Best Radio Presenter (Midday Show) and Nigerian Fashion & Style Awards for Radio Personality of the year. In December 2014, he was selected to participate in the Unilever funded Academy for African Filmmakers by MOFILM, United Kingdom.

Lorenzo has starred in several Nollywood films and television series including a major role in "Crazy, Lovely, Cool" a TV series on Netflix produced by Trace TV and directed by Obi Emelonye. He produced his debut feature film titled "Ordinary Fellows" in 2019 and it has been screened in over twenty film festivals around the world winning Best Director award at the African World Film Festival in Michigan, USA. In 2021, he produced a feature film titled 'Other Side of History', a film that focuses on the life of Chukwuemeka Ojukwu between 1954 and 1960 before Nigeria's independence.

Lorenzo hosted the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in 2019 and 2020. He was a visiting lecturer at the "Introduction to World Musics (Afrobeat & Afrobeats)" class of the Department of Music at Spelman College, USA. For his achievements in African literature and cinema, he received the James Currey Writing Fellowship and Residency in May 2022 from the James Currey Society at Oxford University's Centre for African Studies.

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Actor

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Type

Year

To Adaego with Love Poster

To Adaego with Love Feature Film2025Nzube

Bleeding Butterfly Poster

Bleeding Butterfly Feature Film2023Lorenzo

Dark October Poster

Dark October Feature Film2023Student Leader

Yahoo+ Feature Film2022Mansa

Badamasi (Portrait of a General) Poster

Badamasi (Portrait of a General) Feature Film2021Colonel UK Bello

Dear Sister Poster

Dear Sister Feature Film2021Lorenzo

Umoja Short Film2021Human 1

River Rise Poster

River Rise Short Film2020Renzo

Agwaetiti Obiuto Feature Film2018Akah

Crazy, Lovely, Cool Poster

Crazy, Lovely, Cool TV Series2018Ubong

Wrong Initiation Poster

Wrong Initiation Feature Film2018Capo

Sundown Tale Poster

Sundown Tale Short Film2015Juma

Producer

8

Type

Year

Call of My Life Poster

Call of My Life Feature Film2026

To Adaego with Love Poster

To Adaego with Love Feature Film2025

Uno: The F in Family Poster

Uno: The F in Family Feature Film2024

Yahoo+ Feature Film2022

Umoja Short Film2021

River Rise Poster

River Rise Short Film2020

Ordinary Fellows Poster

Ordinary Fellows Feature Film2019

Sundown Tale Poster

Sundown Tale Short Film2015

Director

3

Type

Year

River Rise Poster

River Rise Short Film2020

Ordinary Fellows Poster

Ordinary Fellows Feature Film2019

Sundown Tale Poster

Sundown Tale Short Film2015

Composer

2

River Rise Poster

River Rise Short Film2020

Sundown Tale Poster

Sundown Tale Short Film2015

Casting Department

1

I Do Not Come to You by Chance Poster

I Do Not Come to You by Chance Feature Film2023

Writer

1

Sundown Tale Poster

Sundown Tale Short Film2015

Other Crew

1

Arima Short Film2017

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