Nollywood director, Patience Oghre is no small fry on the film scene having put in over two decades as a top Nigerian filmmaker.
Oghre, who understudied the late Amaka Igwe amongst other directors, has said that female directors pay a lot more attention to details, hence why they are on the rise in recent times.
In a recent chat with The Nation, Oghre said, “There is no gender in directing. There is no special way a man would call a shot. If it is a close-up, it is a close-up; it is not a female or male close-up. But the beautiful thing about we women when it comes to directing is that because of the way we are wired, we pay a lot of attention to details. We multitask.
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“There are some innate things that we have as women that make us stand out when we do our jobs. We go there, we want to finish and we want to go home. Some directors, when they finish, they still want to hang out. If you see a film that is directed by a woman, please grab your seat and enjoy it.”
On gender equality as a filmmaker, Oghre stressed that directors have no sentiments towards gender.
“Amaka Igwe was already there in the industry and she was encouraging but after Amaka Igwe, there might be an existing female director but I don’t know of any other person that was actually out there like her.
“Like I said, I actually understudied her. Thereafter a lot of women directors began to come up. I am happy about that but I must say that they came in when things were easier. In our time, it was really tough. Directors have no gender,” she said.