Josh Olaoluwa is an award-winning Producer who is keen on telling authentic African stories. He most recently worked at Ebonylife Studios, where he produced the Netflix romantic thriller ‘A Sunday Affair’ and ‘Oloture 2’, a Netflix Limited series.
Josh also worked as producer and showrunner of ‘Grind’, a limited series that made its debut at the top spot on Amazon Prime’s most-streamed shows in Nigeria. In 2022, his short film ‘Naked Woman’, was officially selected by the Smithsonian Museum of African Arts D.C. to commemorate Nigeria’s 62nd independence.
Josh is a 2023 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts prize in the Producing category for ‘Love & Seclusion’, becoming the only African recipient in the fiction feature category.
Josh was the Producer and Showrunner of two family sitcoms ‘Pepprsoup’ and ‘Daddy Yo’ that aired nationally in Nigeria, drawing an average audience of 5 million on its primetime TV.
He also produced the Netflix documentary ‘The Making of A King’: a memoir on the process of producing ‘King of Boys’, Nigeria’s first Netflix original series.
Josh is also a fellow at the Red Sea Labs Saudi Arabia, and Torino Film Lab Italy, where he developed his upcoming fiction feature.
Josh is currently based in Los Angeles, where he is on a dual Fellowship at both the Film Independent Project Involve program, and Global Media Makers residency.