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A Nigerian-born, British writer/director based in France and the UK specialising in both short and long form fiction. Trained at the London Film School, before which he had already explored various creative endeavours in theatre, graphic novels, short story writing and photography as well as, of course, film.

His first short film in the LFS, Les Mémoires d'un temps passé, was screened in the art4lux, third edition (2007) of the European Forum for Emerging Creation in Luxembourg and was previously short listed for the FIPA in Biarrtiz (2007). His graduation short film Untitled 6 was selected for worldwide distribution by Shorts International.

Since then he has written and directed numerous short films in various genres, as well as a number of feature film projects including Paris 60The Fighter's Ballad starring Clive Russell and Japanese murder mystery Random 11 as well as the upcoming feature sci-fi drama After The World Ended. He is currently working on other feature films, scripts and independent projects as a writer-director, while remaining active developing shorter projects and experimenting with form.


Tony Sebastian Ukpo in our archives
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16 Mar 2026

The garden is the resting place of your vulnerabilities; there’s a reason you’ve left them here instead of carrying them with you. Typically you enter hardened and hurried, beelining straight for the correct plot and quickly releasing whatever is clutched in your hand without a second thought—today, an attempted weaving of leather and lace, strength and suppleness that your body cannot figure out how to wear, nor your words to narrate.
If you say there are rats, I will believe you, though I don’t hear or see them.
A ruffling of branches as they resettle for the night. We dare not ask why they are here.
Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity 
As part of a collective of African writers who have created an Afrocentric Sauútiverse of five planets, two suns and a spirit moon, a world of science and fantasy, where there is no written language, we play with technology and sound magic to scrutinise the world as we know it, and use speculative fiction as a response to our world. 
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