Oluwaseun Babalola

Creative Producer's Indaba 2020/21

Oluwaseun Babalola is an award-winning director, 2x Emmy-nominated producer, and nonprofit founder. Her professional work aims to: one, celebrate Black identity using film, television, and digital media, and two, build sustainable outlets and funding for Black media professionals.

Oluwaseun has worked as producer on episodic and serial projects such as Black History in Two Minutes (or so) with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell (CNN), Africa Everywhere (The Africa Channel), Streets of Dreams (CNBC), and feature documentary films, Trichster, Picture A Scientist (PBS, Netflix), and Frederick Douglass In Five Speeches (HBO). Oluwaseun is also a community organizer and founder of KOSINIMA, Inc., a nonprofit organization that supports Black creatives with career-building resources. This includes the "KOSINIMA Short Film Grant" for Black femme filmmakers and "www.sojuafrica.com", a media platform that uses documentary film and photography to celebrate African youth culture.

Email: seun@doglobal.international