Fonna Seidu
Producer,Assistant Director
Profile Details
- Country: Canada
- Province/State: Ontario
- City: Toronto
- How do you Identify?: Afro-Filipina Queer Woman
- Field of Work: Fiction/Scripted
- Union: Non-Union
- Interested In: Developing my own Film/TV/Digital Material, For-Hire Work, and Shadowing
- Contact Information: 647-239-7371
- Link: https://fonnatasha.com/
Bio
Dreaming of creating a world where artists and creatives don’t procrastinate, Fonna Seidu swoops in to keep teams on-time and on-budget. Fonna is dedicated to working on projects that spark social change such as over 45+ unique events across the GTA including multi-city photography exhibitions, running large-scale conferences, to coordinating speaking tours for internationally acclaimed educators.
In 2018, Fonna pivoted from project manager to impact producer after graduating from the Black Youth Pathways to Industry program. Since then, she’s worked on over 25 commercials and short films with no signs of stopping. Fonna’s first producing credit was on Promise Me, written and directed by award-winning director, Alison Duke. The film was recently awarded the Winston W. Moxam Best Black Canadian Shorts Award.
Up next, you will find Fonna working alongside Lu Asfaha on her CBC-funded project, Fresh Meat, co-producing Breakthroughs Film Festival pitch contest winner, Carolyn Wu, on theri short film Toe The Line, and working on two Telefilm funded features Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls, by Julianna Notten, and Village Keeper, by Karen Chapman.
To learn more about her work, visit https://fonnatasha.com and https://www.snailmailmedia.com/