Nigerian filmmaker Kemi Adetiba was a guest on this week’s episode of CNN’s African Voices. An alumna of New York Films Academy, the Wedding Party director provided insights into her career, her next moves and why the web series “King Women” is so important to her.
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On her decision to transit from a radio and tv presenter to a directorial role.
“I said: ‘Instead of just wasting a couple of years, how about I learn a new craft while I’m doing that? What is the thing that I want to learn now? What is the thing that will take my career to the next level? – being a director.”
She thinks her background prepared her to achieve success in the creative industry.
Her father Dele Adetiba, is a veteran of Nigeria’s advertising and broadcast industries, a situation that prompted her interest in the sector.
On the commercial success of “The Wedding party” as the highest grossing movie in Nigeria cinema
“I knew it was going to break the record, I knew it was going to do very well, I felt it, I sensed it.”
“The greatest thing you can do for yourself is every time you have the opportunity to handle someone’s project, knock it out the park, and that is what I live by every day.”
