Kemi Adetiba
Filmmaker and director Kemi Adetiba, who came across a photo of the
bucket of fibroid doctors took out from her 3 years ago, shared her
flashback story on social media.
Read her post:
Kemi Adetiba is a Nigerian music video director, filmmaker, and television director whose works have appeared on Channel O, MTV Base, Soundcity TV, BET and Netflix.
Kemi started out professionally as a radio presenter with Rhythm 93.7 FM, where she became the voice behind two nationally syndicated hit shows: Soul’d Out and Sunday at the Seaside.
Kemi Adetiba began to make a transition from being a voice on radio
to being a face on television by producing and presenting several shows
on Mnet, which includes Studio 53, Temptation Nigeria which she presented alongside Ikponmwosa Osakioduwa. Kemi was also a presenter on Soundcity TV and hosted Maltina Dance All for three consecutive seasons.
After years of success being in front of the camera, Adetiba enrolled into the New York Film Academy
to learn the ropes about being behind the cameras and today, her bodies
of work as a director are spread across the African continent and
beyond its borders. Kemi Adetiba’s short film Across a Bloodied Ocean was screened at the 2009 Pan African Film Festival and National Black Arts Festival.
On 8 September 2016, Kemi Adetiba’s first feature film “The Wedding
Party” (a Nigerian Rom-com film) premiered opening night, at the Toronto
International Film Festival (TIFF), as the opening film of the
City-to-City Spotlight.