Niyi Towolawi is a British filmmaker and writer/director of TWisTED[1][2] and Turning Point.
[3][4][5][6][7] Towolawi is of Yoruba, Nigerian descent, and grew up in Canning Town, East London.
He is a Mathematics graduate from the University of Manchester, where he played basketball and studied Shaolin Kung Fu.
Towolawi began producing music in high school and had a number of white label record releases at the height of the UK Garage scene.
His films centre around people of African origin in the diaspora and explore elements of multi-dimensional relationships along ethnic, gender, or taboo issues, and often feature characters of subjective motives.