---
name: "Funmbi Ogunbanwo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/funmbi-ogunbanwo"
fi1m_id: "funmbi-ogunbanwo"
tmdb_id: 2807821
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:17:18.498540+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Funmbi Ogunbanwo

## Identity

Funmbi Ogunbanwo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/funmbi-ogunbanwo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** funmbi-ogunbanwo
- **TMDB ID:** 2807821
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2807821

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2807821

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*My Father's Shadow*](https://film.one/film/my-fathers-shadow.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Funmbi Ogunbanwo is a producer and co-founder and CEO of Fatherland Productions, a Lagos- and London-based company focused on African storytelling. She previously qualified as a barrister and solicitor before moving into film and television production.

Ogunbanwo produced the feature *My Father's Shadow* (2025), directed by Akinola Davies Jr. and co-written with Wale Davies. The film, a UK-Nigeria co-production involving Element Pictures, BBC Film and the BFI, premiered at Cannes in Un Certain Regard, becoming the first Nigerian film selected for the official programme; it received a Caméra d’Or Special Mention. She had earlier produced the Davies brothers’ short *Lizard* (2020).

She is a graduate of the National Film and Television School and a member of the Producers Guild of America.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, screendaily.com, bellanaija.com, nfts.co.uk, durbanfilmmart.co.za.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *My Father's Shadow* (2025), Fi1m 81, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/my-fathers-shadow.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *My Father's Shadow* (2025), Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/my-fathers-shadow.md)
- *Lizard* (2021), Co-Producer
- *Harmattan*, Executive Producer

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/funmbi-ogunbanwo