Director

Blitz Bazawule

Directing

Career Snapshot

Explained

These indicators come from TMDB. They are relative signals, not review ratings.

Directed credits

Emerging

Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.5

Low visibility

TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.

Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 1507725

IMDb ID: nm7577540

Known for: Directing

Born: April 19, 1982

Age: 43

Place of birth: Accra, Ghana

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1996 - 2023

Years active: 28

Average TMDB rating: 6.54

Wikidata: Q4926959

Also known as

Blitz the Ambassador • Sam Blitz Bazawule • Samuel Bazawule

Frequent jobs

Director (3)Executive Music Producer (1)Executive Producer (1)

TMDB TMDB IMDb IMDb Instagram W Wikidata

Biography

Blitz Bazawule is a filmmaker and musician born in Accra, Ghana and based in Brooklyn, New York. Blitz's short films Native Sun (2012) and Diasporadical Trilogìa (2016) have premiered at BAM New Voices in Black Cinema. His debut feature film The Burial of Kojo was released in 2018, later released on Netflix via Ava DuVernay's ARRAY distribution company. Bazawule wrote, directed, co-edited and co-prouced the film, as well as providing the soundtrack. As a musician and band leader, Bazawule has released 4 studio albums under the name Blitz the Ambassador - Stereotype (2009), Native Sun (2011), Afropolitan Dreams (2014) and Diasporadical (2016) as well as the soundtrack album to The Burial of Kojo (2019) - and has performed at music festivals such as Roskilde (Denmark), Solidays (France), Mawazine (Morocco) and Sauti za Busara (Zanzibar). Blitz is a 2016 TED Fellow and recipient of the Vilcek Prize.

Movies