Quotes by Chika Anadu

Chika Anadu

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

Film

Mind

Want

I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.

Film

Industry

Long

I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career.

Careers

Children

Future Careers

I was having tea with a guy I was introduced to, about the possibility of working with him at his production company. He asked me if I’d written anything, and I said yes. Then he said ‘why don’t you just shoot it’? And I thought, “duh!” Best advice I ever got.

Advice

Guy

Tea

I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

Describe Myself

Filmmaker

Periods

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.

Film

Genre

Industry

Three directors whose work directly influences mine are Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Susanne Bier (her Danish films). You’ll notice that they all don’t make feel good movies, same as me, and their films are always visually simple but beautiful (and I hope mine are!).

Beautiful

Feel Good

Simple

While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.

Paris

Two

Years

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

Aspect

Character

Female

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Quotes by Chika Anadu

Chika Anadu

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.

I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career.

I was having tea with a guy I was introduced to, about the possibility of working with him at his production company. He asked me if I’d written anything, and I said yes. Then he said ‘why don’t you just shoot it’? And I thought, “duh!” Best advice I ever got.

I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.

Three directors whose work directly influences mine are Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Susanne Bier (her Danish films). You’ll notice that they all don’t make feel good movies, same as me, and their films are always visually simple but beautiful (and I hope mine are!).

While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

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