Olatunde Osunsanmi

Olatunde Osunsanmi (born October 23, 1977) is an American film and television director and producer. He is known for his work on Universal's horror film The Fourth Kind and for the TNT dystopian drama Falling Skies, as well as being director or producer on several episodes of Star Trek: Discovery. Life and career Osunsanmi was born in the United States to parents who had immigrated from Nigeria. He graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. His first foray in the industry was with a short film he wrote and directed, entitled Etat. The feature explored the 1970s political climate of his parents’ native Nigeria. He went on to direct and co-pen the low-budget horror film The Cavern, before being approached by Universal Studios to direct, produce and write the alien-invasion/horror film The Fourth Kind. The film claims to be based on "actual case studies" occurring in Nome, Alaska in 2000, and included in the film is footage of Osunsanmi interviewing a "Dr. Abigail Tyler" at Chapman University in Orange, California. In 2013, he directed the serial killer film Evidence, starring True Blood'''s Stephen Moyer. He has since switched to directing episodic television, such as instalments of Under the Dome, The Last Ship, Extant, Sleepy Hollow, Minority Report, Gotham, Blindspot and Star Trek: Discovery.