She is only the third British black woman, following Ngozi Onwurah and Amma Asante, to have directed a feature-length film that was given cinema distribution in the UK.
[1] Ekaragha began her career with a series of successful short films: Tight Jeans (2008), The Park (2009) and Chance Meeting (2013), all of which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival.
In 2013, she directed her first feature film, Gone Too Far!, an adaptation of Bola Agbaje's 2007 play of the same name.
[3] In 2015, Ekaragha announced that she would be directing Danny and the Human Zoo for BBC One television.
[4] The TV film was written by Lenny Henry and was a fictionalized version of his life.