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Ngozi Odita

Ngozi Odita
Associate producer
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

Ngozi Odita is the founder of Society HAE an online media site and production company that promotes emerging art and culture from a global perspective and serves as its Creative Director and Executive Producer.
In the role of Creative Director Odita leads Society HAE's editorial and creative teams and has overseen the production of 42 video shorts and more than 100 news stories.
As Executive Producer, Odita has worked with over 200 artists and produced more than 30 events/programs attended by close to 50,000 people.
Odita's most recent large-scale production THE FACTORY 2010, hosted in conjunction with The Brooklyn Museum's Andy Warhol exhibit: The Last Decade attracted over 24,000 guests and broke the Brooklyn Museums previous one-day attendance record of 16,000. Odita's events/programs have been written up by numerous publications including the New York Times, Village Voice, NY Magazine and Paper Magazine.

Odita's current projects include Tour de PoP and Afrika21, Society HAE's two global initiatives whose goals are to promote public art and emerging art & culture throughout the diaspora and beyond.

Source:
18th New York African Film Festival (April 6th - May 31st, 2011).

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