Emil Garuba
- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
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Emil Garuba is a Nigerian-American screenwriter, creative consultant, director, and producer. His work spans feature films, short films, documentaries, and television shows including the 2015 AFRIFF Audience Choice Award-winning documentary Silent Tears, M-Net Africa's first soap opera Tinsel, and the Africa Magic Original movies Moving On, Lovestruck, and much more. Emil has worked as a script editor on nine award-winning short films for the Nigeria Integrity Film Awards platform (HOMEVIDA) and as a story consultant on the hit television series Sons of the Caliphate for EbonyLife TV. He was also a participant of the UK-Nigeria Script Junction Workshop; a program developed by the British Council with the 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) and 2015 African International Film Festival (AFRIFF).
Emil co-wrote the 2016 AMVCA winning Feature Film Road to Yesterday and the 2019 family drama Lionheart, the first Netflix original film from Nigeria. In 2019, Emil co-wrote the political thriller 4th Republic. Emil made his directorial debut with the provocative and award-winning 2020 short film Last Tango in Abuja.
Emil is the Creative Director of Sutoritera, a media production company that creates original and progressive African stories for a global audience.
Emil co-wrote the 2016 AMVCA winning Feature Film Road to Yesterday and the 2019 family drama Lionheart, the first Netflix original film from Nigeria. In 2019, Emil co-wrote the political thriller 4th Republic. Emil made his directorial debut with the provocative and award-winning 2020 short film Last Tango in Abuja.
Emil is the Creative Director of Sutoritera, a media production company that creates original and progressive African stories for a global audience.