MAJIYE UCHIBEKE
Majiye Uchibeke
Director/Producer
Founder, eel Streaming Service
Co-founder, Ingenee.ai
Majiye Uchibeke is a Directors Guild of America Award–winning filmmaker, University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts alumni and streaming entrepreneur.
He has programmed content at Pluto TV (Paramount Skydance Corporation), reaching millions of viewers. He has managed and programmed thousands of titles across Roku, Sling, Freevee, LG, and Plex, and helped launch and scale Live TV networks.
As Network Director at Black Movies+, he helped launch the service and led programming and growth. At Netflix, he worked on the Arnold docuseries and has built and launched original IP at his other previous roles, bridging content creation with distribution strategy.
He has won 12+ awards in 6 countries and screened at multiple Academy Award-qualifying festivals and 35+ major film festivals across 16 countries and 5 continents for a decade; who has collaborated with Pulitzer Prize, Emmy Award, Nobel Peace Prize, and Academy Award-winning industry leaders and organizations; who was named as one of FilmmakerLife Magazine’s “Top Independent Creators of 2024”.
He is the winner of the 2026 Entrepreneurial Excellence Award at the Founders 2.0 Conference and was named one of FilmmakerLife Magazine’s Top Independent Creators of 2024. He has won 12+ awards in 6 countries and screened his films at 4 BAFTA and Academy Award-qualifying festivals, and 35+ major film festivals across 16 countries for a decade.
He has collaborated with Pulitzer Prize, Emmy Award, Nobel Peace Prize, and Academy Award-winning producers, and organizations, including serving as a Judge at Academy Award-qualifying festivals, AFI Film Fest, etc.
Majiye Uchibeke arrived in the United States in 2015 with a scholarship, a passion for filmmaking, and a plan. Within two weeks of landing, he lost his mother. Within a year, a change in political leadership ended the government scholarship that was funding his education. Navigating Hollywood as both an immigrant and a Black filmmaker, with no institutional backing and real financial uncertainty, he kept going — supported by mentors who saw what he was building toward.
A decade later, that journey has produced eel, a Black-owned, free ad-supported streaming platform that officially launched during BET Weekend 2026. The platform brings movies, TV shows, music videos, documentaries, sports, and live television together in a single destination — available on web, iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, and Google TV.
