Africa Unscripted is a local film production hub in Lagos Nigeria, founded by Jubilian Ngaruwa.
Jubilian Ngaruwa is a documentary filmmaker based in Lagos, Nigeria. In her work, Jubilian navigates decoloniality through memory and heritage as tools for shaping African contemporary thinking ; this process involves reclaiming and reexamining history from the perspective of the Indigenous African people.
Jubilian employs the artistic mediums of film and sound to mediate urgent social issues, advocating for indigenous African people as key knowledge producers contributing to solving crisis faced by the world today.
She works collaboratively with indigenous communities in Nigeria who are not only the leading voices in her project but experts guiding her through their narrative. It has become obligataory for Jubilian to take in one intern in the course of her field work in every community as part of her advocacy for capacity building.
Jubilian Ngaruwa is the founder of Africa Unscripted, a platform aiming at becoming a space for sharing works that celebrate Nigerian oral media and literature, a home for Nigerian artistic works created solely in indigenous Nigerian languages, utilizing modern and traditional technology.
Her current project, ‘Where the Air Is Black,’ is an observational film, documenting the lives of people living right next to Ngeria's purest nature and resource dump - the Niger Delta mangroves. This film explores the theme of ‘departure being’ grief, memory, and acceptance as people living in the Odimodi community navigate the alternative ways of living and surviving in their ancestral land that has for long become a blessing and a curse.
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