My Ethiopian Story by 15 Year Old Filmmaker Zuriel Oduwole

My Ethiopian Story by 15 Year Old Filmmaker Zuriel Oduwole

Born in the United States of Nigerian and Mauritian parentage, Zuriel Oduwole describes herself as a Pan African child. Her goal is to use her programme, Dream Up, Speak, Up, Stand Up, to inspire girls to accomplish their dreams as she has been able to do, and to ensure that every girl gets an education. Moreover, she wants to use the visibility that she has attained in order to present positive images of Africa, those that tell real African stories.

PRESS RELEASE

August 15, 2018 Los Angeles - California, A day after arriving back in Los Angeles from 7 weeks on the road, visiting 6 African countries including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and lastly Ethiopia for her various projects which enunciate the need for Girls education, Zuriel is now sharing with the world her next simple country story - this time, Ethiopia!! Created in a youthful, playful, innocent - yet seriously contemporary approach with the help of some of her students, she summarizes in 50 seconds what made her time in Ethiopia fun, playful, educative, engaging, and above all , delightful. VIDEO: https://youtu.be/iwnG0Pns3fE

Before departing the historic city of Addis Ababa where her current film Follow The Ball screened in two locations, she held her now popular basic 'Film Making 101 class' for several teenage girls in the remote community of Akaki. "They too have dreams you know" she says. Truly ONE girl, can indeed make a DIFFERENCE.

LINK:

zurieloduwole.com/foundation

African Women in Cinema Blog Updates | Actualités 30-06-2017 - News around the Internet | Les infos autour de l’Internet

African Women in Cinema Blog

Updates | Actualités

30 – 06 – 2017

News around the Internet 

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Jihan El Tahri

Mis Me Binga

Zuriel Oduwole

Rama Thiaw

Jihan El Tahri

Academy Invites Record 774 New Members: 39 Percent Female and 30 Percent People of Color. Hollywood Reporter

Mis Me Binga

Festival International de Femmes | International Women’s Film Festival – 29 06 – 01 - 07 2017. Facebook: follow on direct | suivre en direct. Facebook 

Zuriel Oduwole

Africas Biggest Bi-Lingual TV Network Features Zuriel Oduwole

English - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZmVyY1F3yY

French - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBFiziy-erI

Rama Thiaw

Africajarc 2017 : la sélection cinéma, avec Rama Thiaw, invitée officielle. Le programmateur Colin Dupré donne une large part aux femmes.  Imagesfrancophones

Girl filmmaker Zuriel Oduwole Teaches Youths Film Making in Lagos

Girl filmmaker Zuriel Oduwole Teaches Youths Film Making in Lagos

Zuriel Oduwole Projects Press Release

7 July 2016, Lagos, Nigeria

A firm believer in the need for all children but especially Girls to get educated, Los Angeles/ Nigerian native Zuriel Oduwole has expanded her skill transfer program, this time to children from the low income Ibeju - Lekki area of Lagos State and kids from the Makoko slum area of Lagos mainland. 

Earlier in June in parts of Abuja, she spent it teaching children elements of her Film Making '101' program, as part of her DUSUSU Foundation's efforts to reduce the number of out of school and non skilled youths in the country.

Related link from the African Women in Cinema Blog:

Girl filmmaker Zuriel Oduwole: “…using my documentaries to tell Africa's story.”

Girl filmmaker Zuriel Oduwole: “…using my documentaries to tell Africa's story.”

Girl filmmaker Zuriel Oduwole: “…using my documentaries to tell Africa's story.”

Born in the United States of Nigerian and Mauritian parentage, Zuriel Oduwole describes herself as a Pan African child. Her goal is to use her programme, Dream Up, Speak, Up, Stand Up, to inspire girls to accomplish their dreams as she has been able to do, and to ensure that every girl gets an education. Moreover, she wants to use the visibility that she has attained in order to present positive images of Africa, those that tell real African stories. She had this to say about what she wants to attain through her documentary work:

“Because the world is watching, I also like to use my visibility to show the positive things about Africa, using my documentaries to tell Africa's story. For this, I interview Africa's political and business leaders.” 

As a girl, I am concerned  that not every girl has a right to get an education or a chance to accomplish her dreams like me. Not too cool.

My vision is to see that this changes one day, and my mission is to use my “Dream Up, Speak Up, Stand Up” program and other new ideas to inspire girls to accomplish this mission. (DuSuSu Website)

Announcement from Zuriel Oduwole Projects, 24 February 2016: Zuriel’s First Film Workshop for Youths in Africa - Namiba

World renowned Girl Education Advocate and the World's Youngest Film Maker - 13 year old Zuriel Oduwole conducted her first ever Film Workshop for 25 youths in Windhoek – Namibia, an initiative sponsored by Hilton Hotel Windhoek, Air Namibia and Bank Windhoek,

She spent the day telling her filmmaking story to 25 youths chosen from 255 delegates, who applied from Facebook and Newspaper applications, and teaching them basic filmmaking skills, among other documentary processes.

The highlight of the event was showing a sneak preview of her next film due later in 2016 and shot across 5 countries during the 2014 FIFA World Cup - Brazil, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mauritius and the US. Zuriels last film "A Promising Africa" released in November 2014 at age 12 showed first across 2 cinema chains in Nigeria, before going on to screen in Ghana, South Africa, London - England and Tokyo - Japan. 

Links:

Dususu Website: http://www.dreamupspeakupstandup.com 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Zuriel-Oduwole-570044246416423/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ZurielOduwole