About the Director
Sunny King is a director-producer and founder of OAKMANFILM. Like most filmmakers, his first taste of the film industry manifested as a runner in a low budget feature film. The experience left a huge impression on him and led to making independent films of his own. He cites Fritz Lang, F.W Murnau and Kinji Fukasaku as influences. He has worked on numerous shorts, and supporting artist roles in Beeban Kidron’s Hippie Hippie Shake which also starred Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy. He was runner-up on Project talent UK 2007. He had his first short film Signs' selected for the Woodgreen international film festival 2009. He won the GMA awards for best international music video 2011.
His last production called “Unspoken” screened at the premiere of Nollyw...read more
About the Director
Sunny King is a director-producer and founder of OAKMANFILM. Like most filmmakers, his first taste of the film industry manifested as a runner in a low budget feature film. The experience left a huge impression on him and led to making independent films of his own. He cites Fritz Lang, F.W Murnau and Kinji Fukasaku as influences. He has worked on numerous shorts, and supporting artist roles in Beeban Kidron’s Hippie Hippie Shake which also starred Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy. He was runner-up on Project talent UK 2007. He had his first short film Signs' selected for the Woodgreen international film festival 2009. He won the GMA awards for best international music video 2011.
His last production called “Unspoken” screened at the premiere of Nollywood movie “Last Flight to Abuja” to a resounding success.It made the top 10 finalists out of 526 short films worldwide at Afrinolly short film competition. ”Unspoken” has also done several film festivals like Buff Film Festival , Africa in the Pictures Festival ,Film Africa London Independent Film festival, Cinema Africa in Sweden and the 6th international WAMMFEST Women and Minorities in Media (USA). UNSPOKEN won Best LGBT Film at the London independent Film Festival 2013 and Best Short movie at the Nollywood Movie Awards 2013. His latest shortfilm PREY is currently being developed into a feature.
