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… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance,… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done with that.… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind. — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
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… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
I have loved filmed from when I was a child, but I never considered it as a future career. — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would know what… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
