Uzo

Uzo (born August 1957) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker and graphic artist. He has made two feature films, Walls & Bridges (1992) and Better Than Ever (1997). After losing the option to the film rights on the novel, Mendel's Dwarf, after many years of work, he is currently working on a third film, Sophie's Wish.

Early life

He is Igbo and was born in Obiaruku, Nigeria, Uzo is the son of a bookseller and a midwife. His mother died during childbirth when he was twelve years old due to poor medical attention due to the expenditure of resources on the Biafran War, after which he and two siblings were raised solely by his father. He studied graphic design at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, then a masters program in graphic design, at Howard University, Washington, D.C. and then photography at Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California. His early interest in film was cultivated primarily by films from India, today's Bollywood, that were popular in Nigeria during his youth.

UZO

Uzo is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, launched in 2005 in Portugal, over the network TMN.