It’s surreal to note the speedy rise of some professionals throughout sectors world wide. The swift rise of the feminine brigade has surprised everybody, drawing the concentrate on how all those that put in each doable effort towards their goals and aspirations in life certainly go on to develop into influential figures of their chosen industries. Stephanie Ok. Nihon is amongst those that have created an impactful journey of her personal within the ever-evolving leisure world.
It gained’t be fallacious to say that Stephanie Ok. Nihon, is the newest of the trade’s much-talked-about producers. A creator, founder, and producer, Nihon has been main the way in which in Caribbean illustration in child’s content material. “Goombay Youngsters,” is her inventive imaginative and prescient, a one-of-a-kind dwell motion children’ present, and the #1 rated Caribbean children present with 4 seasons up to now and a 32-episode library. It’s an Island Journey Tv Sequence for ages 5-9 years that’s filmed in The Bahamas and to this point, has employed over 350 Bahamians and contributed to the Bahamian financial system. The sequence is a really initiative motivated present targeted on inclusivity, local weather consciousness, youth and ladies’s empowerment.
The Bahamian producer initially jumped into the modeling world after getting found on the age of 15 as the primary Bahamian mannequin to signal with Elite Mannequin Administration and seem in Italian VOGUE. In her illustrious profession, she has labored with CMM Expertise and Modeling Company in Nassau, Bahamas, for six years, the place she assisted in getting as much as 30 fashions and actors signed with prime worldwide businesses. Of her ardour for offering extra vital alternatives for her house nation, she has all the time stepped ahead in offering the wanted illustration to the Caribbean and The Bahamas in TV to offer genuinely genuine inclusion for a multicultural nation that simply desires an opportunity to be seen and participate within the arts.
In the present day, Stephanie Ok. Nihon stands tall because the CEO of Goombay Youngsters Corp. and a rising manufacturing home, LFD Productions, which units to increase into different areas of the Caribbean. LFD Productions is an award-winning TV/movie manufacturing primarily based in Nassau, The Bahamas that additionally delves into expertise improvement, casting and manufacturing consultancy.
She strongly believes that illustration issues, particularly within the realm of kids’s leisure, as a result of it shapes younger minds, fosters cultural understanding, and empowers children to see themselves within the tales they eat. This imaginative and prescient led the founder to determine Goombay Youngsters, which as we speak is standing aside within the panorama of kids’s tv.
Goombay Youngsters has acted as a landmark in Caribbean Youngsters’ tv, which options Bahamian children and is shot in The Bahamas, providing audiences enchanting cultural tales. Talking extra on the identical, Stephanie Ok. Nihon shares that “It speaks to the significance of cultural identification and showcases not solely the Caribbean however cultures from world wide by means of magical and legendary storytelling. Goombay Youngsters is about empowering kids with highly effective and related messages in participating tales.” The sequence has achieved fourteen worldwide awards.
Highlighting extra on the present’s synopsis, the award-winning producer shares that Goombay Youngsters discover themselves on island adventures the place they find out about tradition, historical past, and the atmosphere. They make unbreakable bonds within the breathtaking great thing about the pure world whereas operating into fantastical, legendary folklore characters. Mama DLo, the protector of the island kids and the ocean, retains a watchful eye on the Goombay Youngsters. She is beginning to consider that they are going to be capable to play a extra outstanding position in bridging the realm of the protectors and the human realm for the betterment of mankind. The Goombay Child specialists, who’re child specialists of their fields, are by no means greater than a Goombay Gadget name away to assist on their adventures.
The primary Bahamian present to ever use VFX Animation and live-action hybrid in a child’s TV Sequence has a various set of memorable characters and has accomplished 4 profitable seasons, with the fifth season on the point of movie this summer time with award-winning director Maria Govan, named as Selection’s prime feminine administrators. The sequence is offered on as much as 25 streaming platforms. To additional construct the model and distribution of the TV sequence and to raise the manufacturing worth, she additionally on-boarded a number of unbelievable well-known abilities, increasing the worldwide group.
Other than Goombay Youngsters and LFD Productions, Stephanie Ok. Nihon can be the founding father of The Cays Convention, a prime trade and scouting occasion that has to this point featured the highest modeling and expertise brokers from all world wide. Her latest 2-day occasion in November 2023 on the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort noticed fashions on the primary day and actors on the second. The occasion resulted in 400 call-backs and 4 abilities from the convention being signed to worldwide contracts.
All her ventures have solely obtained constructive testimonials and experiences from folks within the leisure world, which has solely solidified her place as a visionary who desires to proceed representing the Caribbean by creating highly effective platforms and alternatives for the area with the purpose to showcase their abilities and empower them.
Stephanie Ok. Nihon’s ardour and perseverance are infectious, and an instance of what can occur should you don’t surrender.
