
BIO
Artist/Creative Entrepreneur
A culture enthusiast and purpose-driven creative entrepreneur (actor, voice-over artist, costume designer, and dance researcher), Temi is the Creative Director at New Wine Studios, a media and creativity hub which she started in 2020. She is an actor for both stage and film and is the first Nigerian actress in history to ever win a prize at Africa’s most prestigious film festival, the Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou as the FESPACO winner for Best Young Actor from West Africa 2021 for Eyimofe; a feature film by Arie and Chuko Esiri. Temi was also nominated for the prize for acting at The Future Awards Africa in 2022.
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With 8 years of practice and experience, Temi serves as Chief Creative Officer at Untaemed Nigeria, a craft and costuming company for stage, film, TV, music videos, and animated character costumes.
Temi has successfully had two showings of her exhibition and short film screening: 'Journey To Wholeness' in Hungary, and some of her other works include Gandhi The Musical- the first ever Nigerian-Indian musical theatre show, SAD pink- curated by the British Council and performed live at the Lagos Theatre Festival 2016.
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In the field of Philanthropy, Temi is the president of Phoenix Empowerment Foundation, an NGO for child education and empowerment, where several outreaches have been conducted since 2020 till date.
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She is an Erasmus Mundus Scholar with the Choreomundus master's program where she obtained a Master's Degree in anthropology and ethnochoreology of dance and intangible cultural heritage. Presently Temi voluntarily serves as Program representative for Choreomundus with the Erasmus Mundus Association, an international Non-Governmental Organisation for all Erasmus Mundus programs in the EU.
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Her recent interests and exploits are in making ethnographic films and exploring the use of technologies like motion capture, and virtual reality for safeguarding and transmission of African cultural heritage.

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