Biography

Oreka Godis is a British-Nigerian producer, writer-director and performer working across film, documentary and audio. Her work centres culturally grounded, gender-equitable storytelling rooted in diasporic experience, with a particular focus on women's interiority, inheritance, belonging and the politics of home.

She produced and delivered the BFI Doc Society funded Ajamu X, Holding the Frame. She is an Associate Producer on Vanilla (dir. Joseph a. Adesunloye, Locarno Pro 2023). Her current feature project, The House That Itiafa Built, was selected for the inaugural BFI Matchmakers Global South Lab 2026 and is named in Screen International. She holds ALBERT certification across Short Film, Unscripted Television and Feature Film production.

As a writer-director, she is developing her debut feature Things to Unpack When You Are Going to Bury Your Father. Her debut short film, EMẸ (Mine), is in production.

Earlier in her career, Oreka served as Head of Content Acquisition at iROKO Partners. She has spoken at the UN WIPO on sustaining the film industry in the digital environment and at Advertising Week Europe.

She trained at the Identity School of Acting in 2017 and is represented for performance by Nelson Talent Management.

At school, Oreka was class captain, social prefect, an active member of her school's track-and-field team, the debate team, Student Union Council Board member during A’Levels and an elected Afro-Caribbean Society President at university.