title: Uyoyou Adia
text: # Uyoyou Adia
  
  Uyoyou Adia is a Nollywood actress and a film director. She is known for her roles in Charge and Bail, The Sessions and Hey You.
  
  ## Career
  
  Adia started as an actress in 2013 where she featured in a film titled Child, Not Bride. In 2017, she did an intern with Tope Oshin and Remi Ibinola. After the internship, she got selected to participate in Homevida, a writing workshop powered by Homevida, Google, USAID and Pan-Atlantic University. Since then, she has written, directed and featured in several films.
  
  ## Awards  and nominations
  
  She is a recipient of The African Films and Arts Festival Award Nomination under the category of Best Emerging Film Makers.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  * Child Not Bride
  * Nneka: The Pretty Serpent
  * Rattlesnake: The Ahanna Story
  * The Ghost and the Tout
  * Charge and Bail
  * The Sessions
  * Hey You
  