Teco Benson is a

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film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and producer. He was nominated for Best Director at the

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in 2006 and 2008, and won Director of the Year at the

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. In 2012 he was decorated by President

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of Nigeria as a

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. He started his career as an actor in 1994 before switching to producing and directing. In 2003 he made the first Sierra Leone-made film titled ''Blood Diamonds''.

Filmography

*'' End of the Wicked'' *''Red Hot'' *''Accident'' *''Mission to Nowhere'' *''

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'' *''Two Brides and a Baby'' *''High Blood Pressure'' *''Explosion'' *''Executive Crime'' *''Broad Daylight'' *''The Price'' *''Wasted Years'' *''End of the Wicked'' *''War Front'' *''Formidable Force'' *''Blood Diamonds'' *''False Alarm'' *''Terror'' *''Six Demons'' *''The Senator'' *''Eye for Eye'' *''Dirty Game'' *''Felony'' *''Day of Reckoning'' *''Day of Atonement'' *''Highway to the Grave'' *''Grace to Grass'' *''Danger Signal'' *''Accidental Discharge'' *''Silence of the Gods'' *''Mfana Ibagha'' *''Iku doro'' *''The Fake Prophet'' *''Elastic Limit'' *''Mr & Mrs, Chapter 2''

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Filmography

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