Kemi Adetiba

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.^[1][2]

Early life

Born in Lagos on 8 January 1980,^[3] Kemi Adetiba started her journey into the media as a young child where she headlined two national television commercials for the iconic detergent brand OMO, Towing the path of her father, Dele Adetiba, a veteran in the advertising and broadcast industries who played a pivotal role in the development in Nigeria.^[4]

Career

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.^[5]

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.^[6]

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.

Awards and nominations

Some of the awards her works have won include Best Female Video for the song "Ekundayo" by TY Bello at the Soundcity TV Music Video Awards, Best Female Video for the song "Today na Today" by Omawumi at the 2010 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Adetiba's most recent works are music video direction of Waje’s "Onye" which features Tiwa Savage, Olamide's "Anifowose", "Sitting on the Throne" and Bez's R&B single "Say".

Kemi was nominated for Best Music Video Director of the Year at The Headies 2014.^[7] She won the City People Entertainment Award for Best Music Video Director Of The Year (2015).^[8]

Filmography

• The Wedding Party (2016)

Videography

• 2017: King Women^[9]
• 2015: "Last Bus-stop" by Niyola
• 2015: "Dance Go (Eau de Vie)" for Hennessy Artistry '15 {feat. Wizkid and 2face Idibia}
• 2015: "Out A Magazine" by Lindsey
• 2014:"My Darlin" by Tiwa Savage
• 2014:"My Place" by Lynxxx^[10]
• 2014:"Love to Love You" by Niyola (featuring Banky W.)^[11]
• 2014:"Sitting on the Throne" by Olamide^[12]
• 2014:"Anifowose" by Olamide
• 2014:"Onye" by Waje^[13]
• 2013:"Toh Bad" by Niyola^[14]
• 2013:"Say" by Bez^[15]
• 2012:"If I Die" by Da Grin
• 2012:"Tease Me/Bad Guys" by Wizkid
• 2011:"I Believe" by Ego
• 2011:"Follow You Go" by Banky W.
• 2011:"The Future" by TY Bello
• 2010:"Fall in Love" by Ego
• 2010:"Lagos Party" by Banky W.
• 2010:"More You" by Banky W.
• 2011:"Today Na Today" by Omawumi
• 2008:"Ekundayo" by TY Bello

References

External links

• Official website