Julius Onah

Overview

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Birthday
Feb 10, 1983 (42 years old)

Julius Onah

Known For

Goodbye Chicken, Farewell Goat
0h 6m
Movie 2010

Goodbye Chicken, Farewell Goat

Seven years since his last visit to Nigeria, a filmmaker meditates on the death of his father.

She Waits in the Restless Horizon
0h 12m
Movie 2005

She Waits in the Restless Horizon

Sue Faye, a Chinese American immigrant, and Adoga, an aspiring comic book artist from Nigeria, are faced with a difficult decision. Soon after an innocent encounter, they find themselves in a quiet romance. Unfortunately, circumstances out of their control arise and threaten to separate them. As Sue Faye meditates on her past, the possibilities of the present become another memory, and she must reconcile with the uncertainty of a decision that could change their lives forever.

Meditations/A Love Story
0h 24m
Movie 2004

Meditations/A Love Story

A young couple fall in and out of love as they muse on their lives.

Nigger
0h 12m
Movie 2004

Nigger

The tale of a young man's struggle to establish a racial identity. Blending elements of '60s agit-prop political theater with surreal storytelling, the film provides a glimpse into the mind of its protagonist during an intense psychological and emotional breakdown. As an elaborately constructed fantasy world clashes with a past that haunts him, he suffers through a downward spiral as he loses a grip on reality.

Biography

Julius Onah (born February 10, 1983) is an American-Nigerian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing the feature films, The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), Luce (2019), and Captain America: Brave New World (2025). Onah was born in Cross River State, Nigeria, in Okpoma. Adoga Onah, his father, was a diplomat from Nigeria. Before relocating to Arlington County, Virginia, he was raised in the Philippines, Nigeria, Togo, and the United Kingdom. After graduating from Arlington, Virginia's Washington-Lee High School, Onah went on to get a bachelor's degree in drama from Middletown, Connecticut's Wesleyan University. He earned an M.F.A. from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts' graduate film course, where he also qualified as a Dean's Fellow. Additionally, he has been awarded the esteemed Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship.

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