Uzo

Uzo
Born	1957 (age 59–60) Obiaruku, Nigeria
Occupation	Film Director, Artist

Uzo (born August 1957) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker and graphic artist. He has made two feature films, Walls & Bridges (1992) and Better Than Ever (1997). After losing the option to the film rights on the novel, Mendel's Dwarf, after many years of work, he is currently working on a third film, Sophie's Wish.

He is Igbo and was born in Obiaruku, Nigeria, Uzo is the son of a bookseller and a midwife. His mother died during childbirth when he was twelve years old due to poor medical attention due to the expenditure of resources on the Biafran War, after which he and two siblings were raised solely by his father. He studied graphic design at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, then a masters program in graphic design, at Howard University, Washington, D.C. and then photography at Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California. His early interest in film was cultivated primarily by films from India, today's Bollywood, that were popular in Nigeria during his youth.

His production company is called Cold Grey Entertainment. Initially based in Patchogue, New York, he is now based in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York.

A professional graphic artist, he is the founder of the Devo clothing brand, which has now been phased into a shoe line. While his films deal significantly with race relations, the issue of race is never dealt with on the surface.

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