Samona Olanipekun is a filmmaker who was born in Coventry to Nigerian parents. He developed an early fascination for film in his teenage years, when his older brothers introduced him to independent European cinema and documentaries. In 2018, he released “Kindred,” a visually poetic short that took the huge theme of globalization and brought it down to earth in a tender and personal story. It went on to win “Best Experimental” at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival. We featured his film “I and I,” which unpacks the relationship we have with the voice in our heads, showing us a day in the life of a man as he battles with it, befriends it and eventually leaves it behind in the arms of his friends.
