Perekeme Odon, a Bayelsa-born creative and talented filmmaker, is a professionally trained and certified filmmaker, theatre practitioner, broadcast journalist, cinematographer, and documentary filmmaker. In 2000, he graduated from the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. In 2002, he went to Paiko, Niger State, for his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation before being redeployed to the Bayelsa State Council for Arts and Culture, Yenagoa, Nigeria.

Under the watchful eye of his music guru, teacher, and adviser, Jon John Duke Dureke, he joined movie production in 1995 as a music producer and dance-hall reggae artiste and later got recruited into Dagogo Diminas' 13 Fatman & Associates as a make-up assistant, where he met other make-up artists and designers like Gabriel Okorie (GabaZzini) and Ifeanyi Uzoka (Bandana).

The former and ex-student of the Government Sea School, Isaka, Port Harcourt, and the Federal School of Arts and Science, Aba, Abia State, has been making up actors in the Nigerian movie and entertainment industries and for special events for over 20 years, with lots of awards and nominations to his credit. Perewinkle, as he is popularly called, was nominated at the 2007 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) with the movie 'Covenant Church', directed by Charles Novia. He was also nominated for a Nollywood Movies Award for "Tango With Me" in 2012.

Perekeme was furthermore nominated at the fifth edition of the Nollywood and African Film Critics’ Awards (NAFCA), which took place at The Orpheum Theatre, Broadway, Los Angeles, California, USA, with "Oloibiri," produced by Rogers Ofime and directed by 2015 NAFCA Best Director of the Year, Curtis Graham.

On March 4, 2017, Perekeme Odon, alongside other artists, won the Best Makeup Artist award for movies and TV series at the 2017 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (#AMVCA), held at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Lagos, with the movie "Oloibiri," produced by Rogers Ofime. Then on July 15, 2017, Perekeme also won the Award for Best Achievement in Makeup in Africa at the 2017 Africa Movie Academy Awards, still held at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Lagos, with the same movie, 'Oloibiri', produced by Rogers Ofime.

Perekeme has done make-up designs and special effects in more than 150 movies in Nigeria and Africa and is also doubling as an assistant director in Tarila Thompson's yet-to-be-released big screen movie, 'In The Creek," and Mozzyva's Pictures' "Love Triangle." However, since the challenges for great special effect movies were not forthcoming years ago, he decided to explore navigation into full-time production in 2010.

Besides makeup and special effects, Pere is a movie director, documentary filmmaker, broadcast journalist, editor, and videographer who films and edits musical videos, commercials, feature films, events, and many cultural documentaries on cultural festivals. "Nigeria & Crude Oil: A Blessing or a Curse," one of his documentaries, was screened at the 2016 Abuja International Film Festival.

Perekeme, a graduate of the Del-York Creative Academy, a branch of the New York Film Academy in the United States, where he studied film/TV directing, documentary filmmaking, and cinematography, has studied the arts and tricks of directing with a variety of avant-garde concepts and ideas. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Nigeria (DGN), the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), the Creative Designers Guild of Nigeria (CDGN), and the Radio, Television, and Theatre Arts Workers Union (RATTAWU). In 2010, Pere worked as an assistant director for Disney's "High School Musical Live on Stage" in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria.

Perekeme is also a trained professional journalist and communicator, having graduated from the prestigious Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) and the University of Lagos with postgraduate diplomas (PGDs) in broadcast journalism and mass communication, respectively. He is currently the Head of the Performing Arts Department, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Lagos Zonal Office, National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos State.

Perekeme is also an alumnus of the Africa Leadership Forum (ALF), where he attended the Democratic Leadership Training Program in 2006. He is the National Secretary of the Directors' Guild of Nigeria (DGN), after serving a two-tenure four years as the Public Relations Officer. His hobbies are reading, writing, dancing, swimming, meeting people, travelling, etc.