Obediya was selected as one of Canada's 20 Emerging Diverse filmmakers by Toronto's Reelworld Film Festival (2019). He is the Kulas Theatre Composer Fellow for the Cleveland Public Theatre (2019/2020), where he works with producers and directors to compose and produce original music for CPT's professional Theatre Season.
As a film director and music composer his short film "Energy" won Outstanding Music Video at the Short. Sweet. Film Festival in Cleveland, Ohio (2019). As a writer his screenplay "Salvation: A Gospel Oratorio" won Best Script in the Christian Film Festival in Richmond, Virginia, April 2018.