Co-founder of OYA Media Group, Ngardy Conteh George is Sierra Leonean-Canadian award-winning director, producer and editor dedicated to amplifying the voices of systematically excluded communities, particularly those representing the African Diaspora. Recently she co-directed and co-produced 5-part docu-series ‘Black Community Mixtapes’ (Citytv), winner of three 2024 Canadian Screen Awards (and nominated for five) and co-produced ‘Veracity: Answering The Call’ for Rogers/CityTV.She directed, co-wrote and co-produced TV-hour documentary ‘Mr. Jane and Finch’ (CBC), winner of two 2020 Canadian Screen Awards. Her first feature length documentary was Sundance Institute Documentary Film Fund supported ‘The Flying Stars’, about amputee footballers in Sierra Leone coping with PTSD. The film earned best documentary at the BronzeLens Film Festival in 2015 and aired on CBC documentary channel, NHK, DR, and Al-Jazeera. She recently produced ‘Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story’, which made its World Premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival and ‘A Mother Apart’, which had its world premiere at Hot Docs 2024 earning Top 3 Audience favourite. She has been a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Fellow and grantee and a Black Public Media & MIT Open Doc Labs visiting artist fellow. She is also a member of the Directors Guild of Canada. Supporting community, Ngardy is a co-founder and board chair of OYA Black Arts Coalition, a not-for-profit charitable organization that focuses on supporting Black filmmakers and entrepreneurs in the film, entertainment and digital media industry.