Filmmakers and Producers

Adaeze Elechi

Adaeze Elechi is an award-winning filmmaker and writer of Igbo heritage whose works are motivated both by a desire to explore healing, and to interrogate the ways our individual and collective histories shape our present and future understanding of ourselves. She distills extensive journalistic and historical research through Igbo cultural tenets to create poetic interpretations and expressions of the world around her with the hope and goal of etching pathways to justice, healing, and deeper self-knowledge for herself and others. Her films have screened at film festivals across the U.S. and Canada. She is a Logan Nonfiction Fellowship alumna, and her collection of short stories and poetry Harmattan was published in 2019 by Bottlecap Press. The eponymous short story from this book was a finalist for the 47th New Millennium Award for Fiction. She has performed her poetry at various literary festivals including the New York City Poetry Festival. Her work has appeared in Guernica Magazine, mindbodygreen, and stylelikeu. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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The Keepsake
Adaeze Elechi
Producer: Adaeze Elechi
2024, 32 min., Color, United States
After living with relatives in fast-paced Lagos City, Nigeria, 14-year-old Amarachi returns to her home village to live with her mother Ikechi for the first time in eight years. When Ikechi learns Amarachi is pregnant due to rape, the pair begins an emotional journey to heal from their individual an...


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