Ife Olatunji is an award-winning, Oscar-nominated practicing visual anthropologist specializing in observational cinema and longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork. Ife has worked for Participant Media, Kartemquin Films, The University of Chicago and others. Ife continues their work as an independent producer, photographer and documentary filmmaker in LA. 

 

Ife has conducted comparative observational fieldwork in Brazil, Ghana, the Dominican Republic, India, Nigeria, Mexico, and most recently, Thailand, Peru, and Greece. Ife works with women, girls, and children through short ethnographic films that examine complex social issues. Ife makes films documenting the daily lives of people of colour, especially women, using cinéma vérité.

 

Ife is known for creating a space where stories are told for the people, by the people. Ife's projects include themes of racism, gender, ethnicity, identity construction, and the impact of politics on everyday life.

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