Filmmaker Kemi Adetiba says winning an
Oscar award is part of her future plans. The
talented video director, who directed the
highly successful movie The Wedding Party,
had an interview with CNN African Voices
where she revealed quite a lot about her
career, her ambitions, and future plans.
In the episode of CNN’s African Voices which
will air today, Kemi revealed that one of her
goals for the future is to win an Oscar. She
went on to give a time frame within which
the ambitious goal will be achieved.
She said: “I honestly do believe that winning
an Oscar is going to come very soon; I’ve
given myself two to five years.”
Kemi Adetiba has been in the industry for
over 15 years, starting out as a Radio
personality to a TV personality, to DJing,
before working behind the camera as a
director of music vidoes, short films,
commercial campaigns, documentaries, and
now movies. Explaining why she decided to
go behind the camera, she said:
“I was questioning my longevity in front of
the camera. I’d also find it intriguing when I
would go off for shoots with the
cameramen. 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.'”
Speaking of her work ethics and how far it
has brought her, she said: “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.”
