About me

Osahon Tongo is an award winning filmmaker from Naperville Illinois.

Tongo has taken part in the Ryan Murphy Half Foundation Directing Mentorship Program. Osahon is a great world builder and is on the rise in VR and immersive interactive design. Tongo has proficiency in marketing, project management, event planning, writing, directing, producing, editing, and sound design. He is a jack of all trades and master of many. Anyone who works with him enjoys themselves, the process and the product.
Tongo attended the top rated film school in the world, USC School of Cinematic Arts. During his time at USC he was honored as an Annenberg Fellow. He was a finalist for the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation Fellowship for New Americans. He received the Phi Kappa Phi Award for his Artistic endeavors. He was the only film student granted the Saks Foundation For Mental Health Scholarship. Tongo was selected to write a feature for James Franco. He wrote, produced and acted in the short film Iman and The Light Warriors. He was executive board for USC Comedy and created a mental health arts festival with Media Institute for Social Change while coaching football at Crenshaw High School.

As a college football player he concluded his career as a senior leader on an ACC Championship and Orange Bowl team. Upon graduation Tongo accelerated fast at CNN in the award winning Digital Marketing Group gaining proficiency at email marketing, online advertising, social media planning, copywriting and ground activation.

After his time at CNN he traveled to Greece through AISEC International to work at the Chios Humane Society and represent the United States at an International Leadership Conference in Delphi, Greece. He worked at Emory University Goizueta Business School (Top 20 MBA program) and served as the Social Media Strategist where he developed best practices and created a storytelling series to leverage the alumni success and paint a picture of Goizueta's ethos through the people.