{"id":458481,"date":"2018-01-26T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/26\/female-director-behind-stonebwoys-mightylele-shares-work-experience\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T00:00:29","slug":"female-director-behind-stonebwoys-mightylele-shares-work-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/26\/female-director-behind-stonebwoys-mightylele-shares-work-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Female director behind &#8216;Stonebwoy&#8217;s Mightylele&#8217; shares work experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Thursday, 25 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>livefmghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-25<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/73370716.295.jpg\" alt=\"Mightylele Bhim Director Lady\" title=\"Mightylele Bhim Director Lady\" width=\"295\" height=\"393\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Edith Nwekenta is widely known for directing Stonebwoy\u2019s \u2018Mightylele\u2019 music video<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516924829_669_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">There has been a paradigm shift in our gender and profession issues here in Ghana over the past few years and this change has been very significant in the confidence today\u2019s woman possesses.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the fact that women are actively competing in various professional fields, video directing is experiencing a major gender imbalance.<\/p>\n<p>It is against this background that the DAILY HERITAGE sought the expert view of the only known female music video director in Ghana concerning the subject. She is Edith Nwekenta, who is widely known for directing Stonebwoy\u2019s \u2018Mightylele\u2019 music video. <\/p>\n<p>She is of a strong conviction that the agenda of women directors is not pushed and therefore it has become commonplace for men to naturally assume that role.<\/p>\n<p>She mentions that there is this stereotype that mostly prevents females from pursuing the art. \u201cIn my experience of being on set, women are automatically expected to be the video models, make-up artists, and producers. I was once mistaken for a lead video model on the set of a video that I was directing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The director, who is also an actress, said, \u201cPeople focus too much on gender and not on the work that is being produced. It\u2019s important to create content that is of a high quality regardless of your gender and this will get people talking and attract the right type of attention.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But she believes there are still women behind the scenes of other audiovisual spaces like movies with a creative force, citing Nicole Amarteifio, who directed  \u2018An African City\u2019 and Shirley Frimpong of Sparrow Productions.<\/p>\n<p>She then suggested that \u201cI think that by engaging women in conversations concerning the craft and putting them on (giving them opportunities) by stakeholders, this void can be filled. Also, men and women can come together to make this a common ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On working with Stonebwoy, Ms Nwekenta stated, \u201cIt felt great! I think it\u2019s important that women [should] know that we are capable of all types of jobs. I\u2019m just happy that my work is being noticed and hopefully it opens doors for women that have similar aspirations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to encourage women that being creative is equally a fun role to have as producing or writing or being in the video itself; with more women behind the scenes we are able to set the pace for what we want to see on our screens,\u201d she indicated. <\/p>\n<p>Ms Nwekenta, who is of both Ghanaian and Nigerian descent, is currently in Lagos working on a number of projects, from music videos to corporate and commercial contents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to say that change is already occurring for women behind the scenes. 2018 is going to be a huge year for us!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 44 updated by: 44 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Thursday, 25 January 2018 Source: livefmghana.com 2018-01-25 Edith Nwekenta is widely known for directing Stonebwoy\u2019s \u2018Mightylele\u2019 music video There has been a paradigm shift in our gender and profession issues here in Ghana over the past few years and this change has been very significant in the confidence today\u2019s woman possesses. However, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":458482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}