Biodun Stephen is a name not known because she has elected to stay behind the scenes. She is the brain behind many well-crafted movies including ‘The Ghost and the Tout’, Picture Perfect, The Visit, Ovy’s Voice, Tiwa’s Baggage, Glimpse, All Shade of Wrong, Sobi’s Mystic, Ehi’s Bitters, Last Days, Seven and Half Days, Tough Love, and her yet to be released movie, Joba.
“I’m a writer, producer, director and sometimes I want to be an actor because my original dream since I was a teenager was to act but life directions didn’t really take that course. I studied Philosophy in OAU and when I graduated I went into radio. I was on Star FM for a while as a newscaster. I then moved to MITV to be a TV presenter and then I went on to Insight Communication Agency to be a copy writer and afterwards went back to radio, Rainbow FM for about 4-years.
But eventually he came around and decided to send me to film school. I attended the London film academy a year later and did film production and screen writing. So when I got back in Nigeria, I decided to do a small film called ‘The Visit’ which was more or less a practical of what I had learnt in the film school”, she noted.She added that her husband, who initially kicked against her dream career, is now comfortable with her new found passion, filmmaking.
He’s comfortable now that I am the producer and so I’ll know how to write it to soothe our conditions; and by the time he even agreed the flair was gone. So it was more of me just wanting to be a film maker and I found peace.”