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FILM JOURNEY 2023
Documentary filmmaking has a new face and a new name, it's Abassi Okoro. Okoro is the latest in up and coming black independent filmmakers for you to keep your eye on. Specializing in cinematic documentary storytelling, a new genre that Okoro created and coined as, "Cinedocs", Abassi Okoro's style is socially expressive, colorfully creative and cinematically mesmerizing.
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FILM JOURNEY 2024
Default beauty is in the eye of the colonizer” is a powerful deconstruction of the phrase “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. It suggests that in a world shaped by colonial domination, the standards of beauty that are considered "default" — meaning normal, ideal, or universally accepted — are not neutral or objective. Instead, they are inherited from colonial ideologies that privileged European aesthetics while dehumanizing or erasing the beauty of colonized peoples.
LENSA WIRE 2024
"I think "Theft" is what we've been waiting for. We've known this information but I think we've been unable to articulate it in a way because we're not sure what we're articulating. Does that make sense? Our piece of the bigger puzzle has always been hidden away by those who control the narrative. Theft of The Black Gods is a culmination of every piece of information that has been gathered over three decades that we all knew but just didn't know what we knew, until now."
FINAL CUT FILM PRO 2024
"When I produced and directed Vodou, the goal was simply to clear the air, since so much misinformation had surrounded an African spiritual practice that my family is connected to on a cultural level, I was compelled. I still hold that project close to my heart because it’s really good stuff.” Abassi Okoro was born Robert Williams but is of Nigerian and Congolese ancestry. The name of ‘Abassi Okoro’ was gifted to him by an African elder in 2018."
