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Stories about the things we carry, the choices that define us, and the worlds we cannot see.
The mythology may be enormous. The emotion must remain intimate.— Mavryk
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Arabida
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Atunmarilaka
Short Film
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Koi Koi
Short Film
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Insurgence
Snake Ether
Short Film
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Why We
Never Were
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Pepper Soup
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The Medium
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Drink to Love
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Strange Woman
FilmFeatured Film
The Last
Descendant
A father abandoned the warrior he once was. To save his son from a semi deity, he must become him again. Solomon, a former divine warrior, has renounced his violent past to raise his family in peace.
Then his son Jeremiah is taken. Jeremiah is the last descendant of Jekan, a child whose bloodline is connected to an ancient prophecy and the approaching Soul Moon.
To bring his son home, Solomon must journey through forgotten realms, confront forces beyond the human world, and ultimately face the one thing he has spent years trying to escape. Himself.
A feature film from Olumense “Mavryk” Omonjahio. Watch the official trailer and enter the world of the story on YouTube.
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What if grief could open a door?
Ethan Dalton, a grief stricken former doctor, discovers he can cross into a supernatural realm known as the Veil and visit his dead mother.
For Ethan, the impossible becomes a refuge. Until every visit begins awakening something inside him. An ancestral spirit is taking hold, and the world Ethan enters to escape his grief may ultimately demand everything from him.
A séance meant to bring closure opens a door instead.
A grieving husband seeks the help of a seasoned medium to contact his late wife. Instead of closure, the séance opens the door to truths neither of them is prepared to confront.
Watch The Medium ↗The ₦3,941 proof of concept created during the 2020 lockdown becomes the gateway into a much larger mythology.
After a birthday video call awakens an ancient creed, Bimbo becomes an Atun, a cursed servant destined to resurrect Arabida, a bloodthirsty deity prophesied to drown the world in blood.
With Lagos under lockdown and Bimbo racing toward her transformation, ancient diviners, scholars, friends, siblings, and unlikely survivors become part of a battle spanning generations.
At its center is a terrifying idea: Blood connects families. But blood can also complete a curse.
After his pregnant wife is killed by the ancient deity Arabida, legendary hunter Jekan sets out to accomplish the impossible.
Kill a god and reclaim the soul of his wife. What begins as vengeance becomes a journey through grief, sacrifice, mortality, and the terrible price of refusing to let go.
On the eve of a life changing decision, Camilla reunites with the woman she once loved.
On the eve of a life changing decision, Camilla reunites with Nia, the woman she once loved, over a bowl of pepper soup in a Nigerian restaurant in Los Angeles.
Torn between the future expected of her and the woman who knows her most authentic self, Camilla must confront a love she thought she had left behind.
Set before the events of The Diary of an Olokun Woman, Pepper Soup is an intimate story about love, identity, repression, and the difficult choices we make in search of belonging.
Watch Pepper Soup ↗About Mavryk

The story comes first.
Olumense “Mavryk” Omonjahio is a Nigerian born filmmaker based in California whose storytelling moves between psychological realism, spirituality, mythology, and deeply human drama.
Before anything supernatural enters his stories, there is usually something human already breaking beneath the surface. A grieving son. A desperate father. A wounded lover. A man questioning his morality. A person forced to choose between who they have been and who they must become.
That emotional foundation is central to Olumense’s filmmaking. African cosmology gives his cinema access to enormous worlds of gods, spirits, ancestry, prophecy, and destiny. But spectacle is never the destination. The human being inside the spectacle is. His work spans supernatural thrillers, psychological drama, horror, romance, mythology, fantasy, and comedy, while returning repeatedly to one central fascination: What happens to human beings when life forces them to confront the parts of themselves they would rather avoid?
Writer. Director. Storyteller. This is the work.
Recognition
Selected festival recognition and honors from a growing body of independent cinematic work.
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