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Biography
O. Funmilayo Makarah is a writer and director of films and videos that explore cultural identity, as well as an educator. She came to Los Angeles in 1974 and entered the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. After spending a decade in Europe, she returned to the MFA program in the late-1980s. She later founded In VISIBLE COLORS, a network of film and video makers.
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L.A. in My Mind (2006)Director
Fired-Up or How I Turned My Rage Into Art (1992)Director
Creating a Different Image: Portrait of Alile Sharon Larkin (1989)Director
Diversity (1989)Director- . . . Just Names . . . Just Names (1988)Director
Define (1988)Director- Ritual for Third World Women Artists (1978)Director
- Survival: The Black African Theatre Project '77 (1977)Director