Yemi Amodu
Nigerian actor, writer, dramatist, director, and producer
Yemi Amodu (born August 8, 1968) is a Nigerian actor, writer, dramatist, director, and producer. He has won several awards including NFVCB Director of Best Film of the Month in 2003, Best Director FNEI in 2006, Director/Producer, Best Indigenous Film, Abuja Film Festival 2008, and Director, Best Epic Film of the year, YOMAFA in 2011.
Early life
Amodu was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. He received his primary education at Salvation Army and Methodist School and later attended Mafoluku Grammar School, Lagos, for his secondary education.
He started as an actor, a poet and a talking drummer in 1983 while in secondary school. Amodu holds a diploma and Bachelor of Arts degree in directing from Department of Performing Arts, Olabisi Onabanjo University.
He worked for his alma mater as an academic technologist teaching film production and its technicalities, and is the director of research and documentation for the Theatre Arts and Motion Picture Practitioners' Association of Nigeria.
Career
Amodu joined Ace studio that later become DBN TV as a trainee editor in 1989. He later started craft of editing on U-Matic and Betacam SP. He also learned cinematography and sound.
He worked as a continuity manager, a sound recordist, production manager and assistant director before he produced his first movie, Evil Rise, which was shot on U-Matic in 1992.
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