Background and Mission

Danono Media is an award-winning film and video production company headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, with offices in New Jersey, USA. Its debut feature production, ‘The Milkmaid', was Nigeria’s first ever submission to the Academy Awards in the category of Best International Feature Film.

Danono Media was founded in 2018 by Desmond Ovbiagele and Seun Sowemimo with a mission to produce artistically compelling and socially relevant entertainment content. Operating out of both West Africa and the United States, Danono seeks to originate thematically challenging but commercially viable projects that carry the potential to resonate with diverse audiences by appealing to the eternal values, desires, and shared experiences of the human spirit.

Driven by the philosophy that the highest form of creativity is accessed through the quest for truth, Danono is focused on creating artistic expressions of true originality primarily in the production of feature films, television and music.

Leveraging on the corporate antecedents and relationships of its key principals, Danono Media seeks to conceive, develop, produce and distribute investment-grade film and television projects of high artistic merit in partnership with leading distributors and global streaming platforms to facilitate access to the broadest possible audience for the benefit of its various stakeholders.

Danono’s debut feature production, a Hausa language film entitled 'The Milkmaid' was recently released on Amazon Prime.