🎙️ Episode 10 of Unwritten+ — our first-ever LIVE recording in a SERIESLY BERLIN SPECIAL is now available!

From Enugu to the Olympic Dream. Unwritten+ Live with Kaelo Iyizoba at Seriesly Berlin

Yesterday at the beautiful Fotografiska Berlin with an amazing view over Berlin in Bar Clara, during the fantastic second edition of Seriesly Berlin, I sat down with Kaelo Iyizoba—a Nigerian American filmmaker whose journey is pure vision and courage.

Born in NYC, raised in Enugu, Nigeria, Kaelo first trained as a pharmacist—then made the leap to study filmmaking at Columbia University Film School. Since then: award winning shorts like “River of Justice” and “Boy Meets Girl”, selections to the Sundance Cultural Impact Residency and TIFF Directors’ Lab, and now “Birthright,” his epic new series which he pitched at the festival’s Writers’ Vision Pitch.

What stayed with me:

• How a boy in Enugu once wrote little novels by hand and sold them with his cousins — and how that spark still fuels his storytelling today.
• The bravery it takes to say, “pharmacy wasn’t my story — film is,” and to start over on an entirely new path.
• The loneliness of landing in New York just as Covid shut the world down — and the resilience it took to keep going, to build community anyway.
• The way he uses cinema to trade in something rare and necessary: empathy.
• The spark of Prince of Egypt — and the dream of one day directing an Olympic Opening Ceremony.

Huge thank you to Seriesly Berlin, Dennis Ruh, Sabine Schmidt and Fotografiska Berlin for hosting our Unwritten+ debut in front of a live audience. What a view. What a room. What a guest.

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