Cherish Oteka

(they/them)

Cherish is a BAFTA award-winning filmmaker with a passion for telling nuanced human-interest stories with a cinematic flair. In 2022, Cherish won a BAFTA in the British Short Film category for their docu-drama The Black Cop. In 2024, Cherish was awarded the Short Documentary Fellowship by The Arts Foundation and named as a Breakthrough Creator by Vimeo in 2023 as well as winning UKTV’s Rising Star Award and the Best Documentary Award at the Movie Screen and Video Awards. Cherish is currently directing and producing their first cinematic feature documentary, about the Gay Games.