Dapo
@oladapobamidele
I am first an artist, then a photographer, but I also like to tell stories. I read the Enclylopedia, Greek Mythology, Roman and Persian Empire & Alice in Wonderland. This books introduced me to a whole lot of imagination and fantasy. It was DC, Marvel & War Universe next. I made many sketches of my favorite heroes; The Amazing Spider Man, Firestorm, Flash, Justice League of America, Captain America, Ulysis Solomon Archer, out of pencil & paper. I took a walk home from school to pick up a copy of 'Peter Parker; The Spectacular Spiderman', & stumbled on the gaphics novel of 'Star Wars; The Empire Strikes Back' and I was struck & hooked. I became intrigued and saw 'Return of the Jedi' which woke me up to a new world of imagination. I often fantasised about planets, I questioned the theory of a uni-verse & hoped it might be a multi-verse. I stayed with science fiction noels such as Star Fall, Star Trek, then I wanted to be come a RAF pilot, and work with NASA as an astronaut, this went on for such a long time. I went to study Engineering & worked as a Digital Artist. The advent of the internet and cinema culminated in a reasearch into story telling techniques. Then Michael Bay's Transformers & Zack Snyder's 300 sent all my early years of Star Wars fooding back. It did take a significant amount of time to realise film; broadcast media as the most intimate route to tell such a story I wanted to tell. A story that will evoke response from an audience; to teach faith, love, hope & character to a world spiraling out of control. So, I started making shorts: stuff it [2006] Soccer Fan [2006] A Terrible Mistake [2008] and film MUTI [2011]. I decided to carry folks like me along, and founded indieactivty (https://www.inideactivity.com), and working on Moxie, an VOD platform for indie filmmakers. Currently, I am writing Maya my first feature to open in US theatres 2020
