Nollywood award winning filmmaker, Tope Oshin Ogun, who is popular for movies like "New Horizon," "Fifty," "Journey to Self," "Fifty" was recently a guest at Pulse TV Studios.
A Director, Producer, Actor, Dialogue Coach and Casting Director, the renowned filmmaker spoke on what makes a film great for her. She also spoke on choosing between being a producer, director and casting director.
Read excerpts;
On how she decides if a movie is great.
Taste differs, so what I may regard as a great film may not be what you would regard as a great film, she said.
So for me, a great film is one that resonates my beliefs, my ideas. It's one that leaves me thinking, that changes my state from when I got in the cinema or when I press the play button ,to the end of the movie.
If Something has changed within me, if there's a thought that I leave the cinema with, if there's a shift within my conscienceness, then for me that's a great film.
On choosing between being a director, producer and casting director.
My first love, my core, my passion is directing, and that is because first and foremost, I'm a storyteller. I'm an artist and I want to create. This is where I find my passion - creating and telling stories.
I find that I'm not just a storyteller, but most of the time I have things that I'm passionate about. I'm passionate about women.
As you might find amongst my most popular works, most of them are about women. I'm very passionate about women and that's because I'm one. Secondly is because within the African society, there are a lot of things that happen to women that we are not allowed to talk about.
Watch full interview below.
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