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Chika Anadu

(1980) Film Director

18 quotes in 105 categories

Chika Anadu is a film director.

Quick Facts About Chika Anadu

Born: October 31, 1980
Profession: Film Director

About Chika Anadu

[Wikidata] Nigerian filmmaker... | [Wikipedia] Chika Anadu is a Nigerian filmmaker best known for the film B for Boy (2013). She has also written and produced several short films. Anadu's films are known for tackling issues of gender discrimination and cultural pressures surrounding tradition in Nigeria.

Quotes by Chika Anadu

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…

Audience

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There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films…

Cinema

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There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done…

Done

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While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of…

Chosen

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I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.

Describe myself

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

Audience

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

Cinema

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While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can…

Aspect

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Three directors whose work directly influences mine are Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Susanne Bier (her Danish films). You'll notice that…

Beautiful

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

Careers

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It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.

Decision

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Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would…

Cinema

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

Film

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I prefer to discover new talent by holding open auditions.

Auditions

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I definitely don't intend to only make films about Nigerians or Africans. I want to make films about people, any people.

Cinema

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It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things -…

Decision

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My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.

Cinema

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I was having tea with a guy I was introduced to, about the possibility of working with him at his production company.…

Advice

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Chika Anadu by topic

Film (12)