C.J. fondly called “Fiery” or “The Fiery One” made his debut feature – a zero budget film “OJUJU” which premiered at the prestigious Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) in November 2014, where it also won the award for “Best Nigerian Film”. OJUJU went on to screen in various festivals around the world, such as the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, Shockproof Film Festival in Prague, New Voices in Black Film Festival in New York, Nollywood Week Festival in Paris, and Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, garnering universal acclaim despite its zero budget status from the likes of internationally renowned critics such as Todd Brown of TwitchFilm (now Screen Anarchy), Tambay A. Obenson of Shadow & Act, and Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter. C.J. for his innovative work on OJUJU, was awarded the Trailblazer of the Year award in March 2015, at the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA). Obasi’s sophomore effort is the feature film “O-Town”, a crime thriller epic piece, which he calls his “Western in an Eastern land” and describes as “my exploration into genre-filmmaking”. O-TOWN premiered at the 2015 Africa International Film Festival, followed by a Nordic premiere at the 2016 Gothenburg Film Festival, Sweden. It was nominated for Best West African Int’l Film at the Screen Nation Awards, UK, and won the Achievement in Soundtrack award at the 2016 African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), as well as two nominations in the Best Nigerian Film & Most Promising Actress categories. O-Town won the award for Best Director at the Lake City Film Festival (LACIFF), 2016. Obasi through his production company Fiery Film acquired the rights to Hello, Moto a short story based on the universally acclaimed Nigerian-american author, Nnedi Okorafor, for a short film adaptation. He is also in pre-production/development stage for Mami Wata – a female-driven revenge thriller based on the popular Mermaid entity of Western Africa, as well as for Otokoto – a factual drama based on the ritual murders that culminated to the mob riots in 1996 in Owerri..