Bijou Festival Filmmakers 2025
Anniwaa Buachie is an award-winning Ghanaian-British actress and multi-hyphenate known for her powerful storytelling across film, TV, and audio. She starred in the BBC’s Phoenix Rise and won an AudioFile Earphones Award for narrating The Teller of Secrets by Bisi Adjapon. Her voice work includes major animation projects like Archer and Marvel’s X-Men '97, and she has appeared on U.S. platforms such as STARZ. In 2022, she won Best Lead Actor at Australia’s Short + Sweet Film Festival. Anniwaa was the founder and artistic director of Golden Delilah, a UK theatre company focused on bold, black female-led stories.
Kelly Hamlin is a native of Richmond VA, began performing as a youth competitive dancer. Over the course of her training Kelly has also studied at The Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet Hispanico, Broadway Dance Center and The Alvin Ailey School. Having spent 13 years in New York as a professional dancer, Kelly has performed works by Alvin Ailey at City Center & The Apollo Theater. She has also performed with The Nai Ni Chen Dance Company, Errol Grimes Dance Group, Genesis Dance, Jennifer Archibald/Arch Dance Co., Earl Mosley, Milton Myers, M'bewe Escobar, Stephen Contreras/SDance, The Riverbank Dance Collective and JP Dance Group.
Lukman Abiose is a multi-talented scholar, playwright, screenwriter, movie producer, director, actor, theatre critic, poet, novelist, creative writer, creative director, theatre experimentalist, theatre historian, motivational, social activist, political analyst, social commentator and journalistic writer with international partners in the Hollywood and British Film Industry.
Lukeman directs this narrative short about an autistic girl finds herself in a toxic and unabling self-centric environment. Her only hope is for her ingenious fine art talent to launch her to stardom.
Anniwaa Buachie is an award-winning Ghanaian-British actress and multi-hyphenate known for her powerful storytelling across film, TV, and audio. She starred in the BBC’s Phoenix Rise and won an AudioFile Earphones Award for narrating The Teller of Secrets by Bisi Adjapon. Her voice work includes major animation projects like Archer and Marvel’s X-Men '97, and she has appeared on U.S. platforms such as STARZ. In 2022, she won Best Lead Actor at Australia’s Short + Sweet Film Festival. Anniwaa was the founder and artistic director of Golden Delilah, a UK theatre company focused on bold, black female-led stories.
Kelly Hamlin is a native of Richmond VA, began performing as a youth competitive dancer. Over the course of her training Kelly has also studied at The Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet Hispanico, Broadway Dance Center and The Alvin Ailey School. Having spent 13 years in New York as a professional dancer, Kelly has performed works by Alvin Ailey at City Center & The Apollo Theater. She has also performed with The Nai Ni Chen Dance Company, Errol Grimes Dance Group, Genesis Dance, Jennifer Archibald/Arch Dance Co., Earl Mosley, Milton Myers, M'bewe Escobar, Stephen Contreras/SDance, The Riverbank Dance Collective and JP Dance Group.
Lukman Abiose is a multi-talented scholar, playwright, screenwriter, movie producer, director, actor, theatre critic, poet, novelist, creative writer, creative director, theatre experimentalist, theatre historian, motivational, social activist, political analyst, social commentator and journalistic writer with international partners in the Hollywood and British Film Industry.
Lukeman directs this narrative short about an autistic girl finds herself in a toxic and unabling self-centric environment. Her only hope is for her ingenious fine art talent to launch her to stardom.