STEPS - Key Persons

Alek Nancy is a freelance journalist. Former Administrative Assistant for the Air Operation Unit of United Nations (UNISFA), she also worked for MiCT's theniles.org project as a news correspondent, and owns a small-sized business. Her recent work was Paan Abiong Together, where an organization teaches women to be independent by creating their own business through various training initiatives (making soap, candles, clothes). Alek Nancy attended the Cavendish University in Uganda, the international Institute of Business and Media Studies in Kampala and holds a BA in Arts Media, Communications and Public Relations, plus a Diploma in Secretarial Studies and Media. At 29 years old, Nancy is a film producer and believes that through filmmaking, all underreported stories shall be brought to limelight.

Job Titles:

• Director
• Founder of Raconteur Productions

Chioma Onyenwe is the founder of Raconteur Productions which has released over twenty films, documentaries, web series, podcasts and theatre plays. She has also collaborated with Ford Foundation, British Council, US Mission, UNDP, Lagos State Govt and European Union. With a background in Economics, an MSc in Management from Imperial College London, and film courses from Met Film School & Relativity Los Angeles, she draws on her interdisciplinary training to create art across different mediums that lie in the intersection of culture, history and identity. The 2016 Africa Movie Academy nominated her first feature 8 Bars & A Clef and she started the August Meeting Movement, which tells the story of the 1929 Aba Women's War. She also created 23419, Nigeria's first true-crime podcast. Chioma Onyenwe is a Creative Producer Indaba fellow and the Artistic Director of the Africa International Film Festival.

Job Titles:

• Executive Producer, Producer / International Sales and Distribution

Don Edkins is a South African documentary filmmaker and producer based in Cape Town. He has produced documentary film projects that have been broadcast around

Job Titles:

• Producer at Raconteur Productions

Egar Ntanyi is a line producer at Raconteur Productions and has managed Family Court, August Meeting, Fortunately Ridiculous and This is Lagos. She has a diploma and a BSc in business administration and is currently working on her MBA Programme concentrating in operations management at the University of Lagos. Egar is a programme coordinator for the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), logistics/operations manager for Artdey Africa and also the owner of WC Fragrance.

Job Titles:

• Journalist for a Ugandan
• Radio Journalist

Mary Monday works as a journalist for a Ugandan news station, researching, recording and editing stories about the lives of refugees in Uganda using only her mobile phone powered with a small solar panel. A refugee herself, Mary's work ensures that refugees and displaced people are able to remain connected through mass media.

After working as a producer, journalist and journalism trainer for international news agencies as well as international media development organizations such as DW Akademie, Ochan also worked in print, radio networks and for radio news agencies such as the Voice of America. Ochan is a journalist by training and attended both the Africa University in Zimbabwe and the Cavendish University in Uganda. He holds a BA in Arts Media, Communications and Public Relations. His recent work of coordinating, producing and editing podcasts, a project by Media Cooperation and Transition International (MiCT), has given disenfranchised individuals in both South Sudan and Uganda a voice. Ochan envisions continuing doing so using cinema. At 37 years, Ochan's aim of using films has led him into telling stories that are close to his heart, stories that could hardly be identified by a foreign eye.