Anthony Onah is a Nigerian American filmmaker who grew up in the Philippines, England, Nigeria, Togo and the U.S. He studied biochemistry and neuroscience at Harvard University, where he was awarded the Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work. Accepted at Cambridge University for graduate school in genetics, he instead transitioned to filmmaking.

Onah was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Film” in 2015, and his debut feature, The Price, premiered in the Narrative Feature Competition at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival. Variety called the film “a thoughtfully crafted, elegant-looking indie drama that suggests a bright future for Onah.” Samuel Goldwyn Films and Orion Pictures acquired distribution rights, and released The Price in theaters in November 2017.

Onah’s sophomore feature, Goliath, participated in the 2019 Sundance Screenwriters Lab, and was awarded the 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.