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About

Fonna (“Phone-Ahh”)
Producer | Project Manager

Fonna Seidu burst onto the film industry in 2018 with Alison Duke’s multi-award winning short film PROMISE ME, being distributed by McIntyre Media as educational content. She’s since worked on 60+ projects including BEING BLACK IN TORONTO, Canadian Screen Award Winner for Best Direction for a Documentary Series and VIRGINS!, on CBC Gem, a web series funded by IPF, Bell, and CBC. 

She also produced short films including FRESH MEAT, which was developed with CBC and won the 2020 Reel Work Filmmaking Fund from BIPOC TV & Film as well as the 2021 Inside Out RE:Focus Post Production Film Fund. TOE THE LINE (2021) was nominated for a Golden Sheaf for Scripted Short at Yorkton Film Festival 2022, and screened at festivals including Inside Out Toronto (2022), Vancouver Queer Film Festival (2022), and Vancouver Asian Film Festival (2021). 

Fonna is expanding into long-form content including YO, WERE DYING a comedy feature supported by Telefilm and the script received quarterfinalist accolades from 2021 ScreenCraft Comedy Competition and 2021 Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. THEY ECHO is a horror feature in collaboration with Defar Media, a script awarded both Best Feature Screenplay and the Fellini Award to the best international script, and recieved Telefilm Development Funding. Additionally, LET’S DO THIS involves a powerhouse team of producers (Clique Pictures, Stellar Citizens, Scythia Pictures, and Waterford Valley Pictures), which has been supported by the Harold Greenberg Fund and Ontario Creates, as well as PACKING, a project supported by IPF Development Fund and Ontario Creates’ IDM Development Funding.

As a Black Queer producer, Fonna champions narrative projects with compelling storylines and niche audiences while always prioritizing BIPOC & 2SLGBTQ+ teams and projects. Fonna has additionally produced content for clients like Cossette, TD, Breakthroughs Film and Television, City of Toronto, Western University, and OYA Media Group. 

Fonna is an alumna of Canadian Film Centre’s Producer’s Lab (2022), OYA’s Scale Up Immersive (2022), and NSI x EAVE’s Access BIPOC Producers inaugural cohort (2022). Between her work as a producer and production manager, Fonna is the Finance Director at a non-profit organization called Adornment Stories that focuses on Black Mental Health and Wellness.

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Fonna is also a workshop facilitator. You can check out her speaking engagements here.

 

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