At 5, Victor lost his dad in an auto accident. The family moved to the village where their clansmen accused his mom of killing his dad with witchcraft. At a trial where she was not allowed to speak she was found guilty and banned from leaving her home and from interacting with villagers. Without friends, Victor grew up buried in books and dreams. He dreamed of telling stories that touched people like the ones he read. And he dreamed of making movies like the ones he paid his way to see in town from money he made raising chickens.
Two decades later Victor returned with five USC students to shoot his thesis short, Mboutoukou, in the same village where he was ostracized as a child. In one year, Mboutoukou played at over 100 film festivals including Venice and MOMA's New Directors/New Films. It was nominated for a Student Oscar and won over 20 awards including Best Short at SXSW and the Rights of the Child Award at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.
Ninah’s Dowry, his debut feature, and winner of over 30 awards tells the story of a runaway wife whose husband finds out she is pregnant and he comes with his friends to recover his bride price he paid or take home the woman he owns. By any means necessary.
Victor is a graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and Film Independent’s Directors
and Screenwriters labs.
