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Born and raised in Cameroon, Central Africa and educated in the USA and Canada, Dorothy A. Atabong is an award-winning Actor-Writer-Producer-Director. She obtained a BSc. in Biochemistry from Michigan before moving on to graduate from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York City.
Dorothy’s short film Sound Of Tears, produced under her company Ayinke Films Inc., marked her directorial debut. It has since screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide and garnered numerous nominations and awards including the Africa Movie Academy Award in 2015.
In 2020, Dorothy won Cayle Chernin Award for media arts for her short script, Eye of the Veil. It is slated for production Summer 2021 and she is mentored by two-time Oscar nominated Director Atom Egoyan.
A Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) alumna, Dorothy is developing her debut feature film drama Zenzile’s Journey.
Awards & Nominations
Eye of the Veil (short)
2020 Cayle Chernin Award for Media Art
2020 Semi-finalist script, BlueCat Writers
2020 Semi-finalist script, Fade In Awards
Sound of Tears (short)
2017 Best Film, Tazama International Women’s Festival, Paris
2016 Best Short Film (Court-métrage de fiction), Festival International Du Cinema, Burundi
2016 Best First Film, Atlas & Aeries Awards
2015 Best Actress, Art City Short Film Festival
2016 Nomination, Ousmane Sembene Award,Zanzibar International Film Festival
2016 Nomination, Best Film, Luxor African Film Festival
2015 Best Diaspora Short, Africa Movie Academy Award
2015 Nomination, Best Short and Best Director, Golden Sheaf Awards, Yorkton Film Festival
2015 Platinum Remi Award, 48th WorldFest Houston
2015 Nomination, Best Short Film, Pan African Film Festival, LA
Daisy’s Heart (feature film, script)
2011 Best Low Budget Script, Female Eye Film Festival
Latest Work — 2020