Rogers Ofime is a Nigerian-born Canada-based filmmaker, movie director, television producer, and entrepreneur. He is renowned for producing several notable Nigerian television soap operas, including The Johnsons and Tinsel. Ofime is a multiple award-winning filmmaker who has produced over
180 telefilms, about 5,000 episodes of TV series, 8 short films, 10 documentaries, and about 30 TV commercials, including those of Interswitch, United Bank of Africa (UBA), Wema Bank, Nokia, First Bank of Nigeria and more.
Rogers Ofime is famous for being the first Nigerian producer and filmmaker to produce the multi-camera studio-based television daily soap opera. This laudable feat was the first of its kind in all of east, west, and north Africa. He is the man behind the scene of most of the award-winning blockbuster movies from Nigeria’s Nollywood.
Ofime is the Executive Producer at Native Media Incorporated and the Chief Executive Officer at Theatron Media, an international filmmaking company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Rogers Ofime has won the highly coveted Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards a number of times on different projects including movies and sitcoms. He has won several local and international awards as a filmmaker.
As far as filmmaking is concerned in Africa and in the West, Rogers Ofime has distinguished himself and he has several laurels and accomplishments to show for it.
He trains and mentors several young movie producers and filmmakers in Africa and Canada.