Owen ‘Alik Shahadah is a key Pan-African filmmaker and theorist whose work emphasis a multi-dimensional worldview of African people. Testimony to this is his epic multi-award winning film 500 YEARS LATER. In July 2007 ‘Alik Shahadah was presented by UNESCO with the bicentennial award for films on Slavery. Shahadah is also an African cultural writer with a influential voice in African history with focus on slavery, culture, linguistics and self-determination. He is curator of the international renown African Holocaust Society. As a music producer composes conscious music for Ocacia and others. 2008 will mark the beginning of filming of one of the most powerful Pan-African documentaries titled MOTHERLAND, which is a continent wide examination of Africa; past, present and future through an African lens of empowerment. Shahadah also has a keen interest on environmental and world peace issues. The 2007 film OUR STORY OUR VOICE articulates the need for religious and political tolerance if Peace in our time is to be realized.Owen Alik Shahadah, was born in Hanover, Germany, raised in the Caribbean and the UK. He has a background in Aerospace engineering but early on distinguished himself in Jazz, music videos and film music. Inspired by Malcolm X and Kwame Nkrumah his first independent film, 500 Years Later picked up 5 international awards including the UNESCO award in 2007 for ’films that dared to speak the truth about slavery.’ As a jazz producer,he has worked with groups such as Ocacia.As a cultural historian he has written numerous articles on African history and culture. He is the curator of the African Holocaust society and is one of the leading critics in the world against linguistic terminologies such as ’black people’ an ’sub-saharan Africa.’He has adapted some of the work of renowned Turkish writer Harun Yahya for audio production. He is an accomplished professional photographer an has a website which documents people of Africa.He is a keen businessman and believes passionately in the economic and cultural advancement of African people, he believes the two are inseparable and calls for greater African ownership of African images and commodities related to African people. He encourages greater investment of the African Diaspora in the continent of Africa and the cutting of dependency from outside of Africa’s cultural borders. Shahadah is also producing the audio production African Holocaust: Dark Voyages and Afrikan Kingdoms.Managed by Sona Soul
