Ife Olatunji is an award-winning, Oscar-nominated practicing visual anthropologist specializing in observational cinema and longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork. Ife currently works with the Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers (BADWestLA) as a Program Manager under the direction of filmmaker and artist Joyce Guy, helping manage the monthly Pre to Post workshops and membership outreach and development. 

 

Ife has worked for Participant Media, Kindling Group, Kartemquin Films, and others throughout their 20-year career. Ife continues their work as an independent producer, photographer, and documentary filmmaker in LA, working in both fiction and documentary.

 

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 people tell stories for the people. Ife's projects explore racism, gender, ethnicity, identity construction, and how politics shapes everyday life.

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