Celebrating Ndi-Igbo

  Chinenye Ezeudu is an actress best known for her role as Vivienne “Viv” Odesanya’ in Netflix’s hit series “Sex Education,” alongside Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Emma Mackey and Ncuti Gatwa.  The actor recently wrapped production on Netflix’s film adaptation of “School for Good and Evil” with Kerry Washington and Charlize Theron. Based on the series of fantasy novels by Soman Chainani and directed by Paul Feig, the story is set in a school which trains students to become fairytale heroes and villains. The film is due in 2022. Ezeudu’s credits also include another Netflix series, “Harlan Coben’s The Stranger.” Emerging star Chinenye has also joined the cast of Young Films’ “Silent Roar,” alongside Louis McCartney (“Grounding”), Ella Lily Hyland (“Intruder”) and Mark Lockyer (“Holby City”). The film, a contemporary tale of adolescence and surfing set on a Scottish Hebridean island, is being produced by Chris Young (“”The Inbetweeners Movie”) and is written and directed b...

Ifunanya 'Funa' Maduka, a filmmaker, is a former director of international original films at Netflix. She was on the front line of Netflix’s international expansion, launching and expanding the international film offering across more than 100 territories. Her acquisitions brought Netflix its first feature film nominations at both the Golden Globes (Houda Benyamina’s Divines) and the Academy Awards (Ildiko Enyedi’s On Body And Soul). Further notable acquisitions and productions include: Atlantic, I Lost My Body, Happy As Lazzaro, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind , Calibre, and Lionheart. Maduka also oversaw the French production,  I Am Not an Easy Man, the upcoming Quebecois production from Patrice Laliberte. Funa holds a BA in History from Cornell University and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where she served on the Board of Trustees and as President of the Student Body, respectively. She has also held leadership and strategic position...