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ABOUT
Osahon Tongo is an LA-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker from Naperville, Illinois. He is a director/producer on the industry-leading show NFL360. Prior to joining the NFL Original Content, he was NFL Films’ first NFL Films Fellow. Osahon was the Director’s assistant on They Cloned Tyrone and directed the second unit, including the hilarious chicken commercial that serves as a devious plot point. Tongo joined the WGA as a staff writer on BET’s Birth Of Cool and has co-written feature films for Rabbit Bandini Productions and Significant Productions. He wrote the award-winning short film “Iman And The Light Warriors.”
He is an inaugural Ryan Murphy Half Foundation Directing Fellow. His short film Happy Bird was screened at Cannes, The Chinese Theater, and The Getty Museum. Tongo’s expertise extends beyond traditional formats into virtual reality and museum installations. In 2018 he produced a virtual reality project called “Greenwood Avenue” for Google’s Youtube VR180 platform. In 2017 he DP’d Question Bridge, an art installation created by Jesse Williams and Hank Willis Thomas in the African American Smithsonian Museum.
Tongo earned an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts film production program and a BS in Management from Georgia Tech, where he played football for the ACC Champion Yellow Jackets. Osahon has lobbied for college athletics policy reform with the National College Players Association and advocated for mental health and wellness. He invests in the community by mentoring the youth as a member of 100 Black Men of LA and Omega Psi Phi. He coached at Crenshaw High School and taught film in East LA through the Youth Cinema Project.
