Cherish Oteka
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Winner of the 2022 BAFTA Award for Best Short Film, Cherish Oteka is a documentary filmmaker who aims to challenge false narratives and provide a platform for often-marginalised communities to tell their stories on their terms.
Cherish has worked with a range of well-known brands and broadcasters including BBC One, VICE, London Live, SBTV, Tate and Stonewall.
Also selected on well-respected talent schemes including Edinburgh Television Festival's One's to Watch, Sheffield Documentary Festival's Doc Next and The Grierson Trust's Doc Lab.
In 2016, Cherish won UKTV's Rising Star Award. The following year they also won Best Documentary at the Movie Screen and Video Awards.
Most recently, Cherish produced and directed Too Gay for God? a documentary for BBC One which explored the place of LGBTIQ+ people within the Church of England.