bio
Zachariah Lloyd Sesay, but professionally known as Lloyd Zachy, born in Sierra Rutile in the Southern Region of Sierra Leone and Raised in the capital city of Freetown. Lloyd is an Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Gospel and Humanitarian Musician. He started music at the age of 10 and recorded his first song in 2001--2002 at the Forensic Records at the age of 12. He started acting in theatre in 2004 and later quit. He started filmmaking in 2006 as an actor and writer. He wrote his first original script titled COMMUNITY CRIME in 2009. He shot his first movie HOME OF THE WITCHES as an assistant director in 2010. And shot his second movie as the Director General in 2011. Lloyd continue to direct movies and train actors until 2014; in between these years he directed 9 movies which are considered except COMMUNITY CRIME, which he wrote in 2009 and directed in 2014, he took the lead role and that was the first time to take a lead role in a movie. He produced and directed his first documentary, a 3 in 1 education sensitization documentary film. Lloyd left his former production Kings & Queens Movies he co-founded in 2015 and founded his own production Lloyd Zachy Production. In 2017 Lloyd Zachy directed and took the senior most role in a movie everyone considered as his breakthrough; this movie was written by him and produced by the Nollywood and Sierra Leone multi award winning producer and actor Collins Archie-Pierce based in the U.K, who also starred on the movie titled TRANSFORM. Lloyd Zachy won his first international award at the SIIKETV Network Rising Star Awards as the Writer of the Year 2017 for the movie COMMUNITY CRIME. Lloyd Zachy is considered by most as one of the finest Screenwriters in Sierra Leone. Lloyd later starred in a movie titled THE BOND in later 2018. He was featured in an international short film titled Carrying Dreams in Ghana 2018. In October 2017 Lloyd released his first professional gospel music video titled MAKE IT and H.O.L.Y in 2018 and is working imminently on his album he proposed to release in 2020. Lloyd Zachy is also a film business entrepreneur, an advocate, a motivator and free lance air personality. He is the Chief Executive of the Lloyd Zachy Production Ltd, an indigenous company in Sierra Leone operating in multimedia, transportation, agribusiness and construction and also the founder and president of H.A.A.A.N.D. Africa a Pan-African social advocacy and human right creative and performing art organization with branches in few African countries. Lloyd is one of the few finest screenwriters in the country and of the fastest growing actors in Sierra Leone. He is currently the Country Representative for African Youths for Development Commission and the Secretary General for the Actors Guild Sierra Leone.
education
Bsc. Student UNICAF University 2017 - Current
Certificate in Application software 2008-2009
NPSE/BECE/WASSCE 2001-2008
Obtained certificates in:
• Certificate in Script writing and Directing 2018
• Certificate in Application Software 2009
• West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination 2008
• Basic Education Certificate Examination 2005
• National Primary School Examination 2001
experience