Opinion : The Top Seven Video Directors In Nigeria (Pictures and Profiles)

Well, there are many good video directors but this seven stands out.

1. Clarence Peters:-





















Clarence Peters (born Clarence Abiodun Peters) is a Nigerian music video director, filmmaker and cinematographer. He is the founder and CEO of CAPital Dream Pictures, a production company that specializes in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video. He is also the founder and CEO of Capital Hill Records, a record label home to Chidinma, Tha Suspect, and IllBliss. He was ranked 2nd on Channel O's Top 10 Most Visionary Music Video Directors list. In 1998, he was involved in a Mobil sponsored music video for a documentary on AIDS. He directed 40 episodes of the TV series Everyday People. Peters has directed music videos for recording artists across an array of genres and generations, including Darey, Durella, and Wizkid, among others. In 2012, he shot the music video for Shuga's theme song, which was recorded by Boneye from P-Unit, Banky W., Wizkid, and L-Tido. Peters has also shot a good number of documentaries, TV commercials, short films, and TV features. In April 2014, Absolut Vodka honored Peters for his creativity.


2. Sesan:-




















Born Sesan Ogunro, Sesan is a great professional in what he choose to do. Any time I see Sesan videos, the quality and girls are amazing. Has worked for a lot of Musical artistes like Wande coal, Kcee, Inyanya, Davido and a lot of them. He is in the same league of Clarence Peters.


3. Mr Moe Musa:-


















Moe Musa is a young Director, Producer and Video Editor based in South West London and has been working in production for the last 5 years. Since completing his studies in Media Technology Mohammed has chosen to focus his thoughts on moving image, whilst still retaining a visual voice within the video created.

Musa is a very good video director known for his quality videos and was also the person that directed Tiwa savage controversial 'Wanted' video.has worked for a lot of countless Artistes.


4. AJE - 























AJE is a unique kind of director that do his thing in a special way. He is a very creative director and has worked for great numbers of the Big names in the Industry.

5. Mattmax:-















Matthew Abiodun Aina popularly known as Mattmax is a very good director especially at directing choreography. He directed D banj 'don't tell me nonsense' video and Timaya 'egolomademba' video.He is very good at his works.


6. Unlimited LA:-















Unlimited L.A whose real names are Olalekan Buari started handling the camera in 2008 under the tutelage of DJ Tee. L.A isn’t just your average music video director as he prefers to call himself a cinematographer. He shot his first video in 2009. He directed Blackmagic’s ‘Rainbow’ in 2011 and ‘Repete’ the following year. His big break came this year when he shot Sean Tizzle’s ‘Sho Lee’ four months ago. The video to the hit single put Unlimited L.A’s name as one of the most promising music video directors. Since then he has shot videos for other Nigerian stars including Tilla Man....

7. Jude Okoye 'Engees':-




















Not to pronounced because he works mostly for his twin brothers. He is the brain behind 'Personally' video and a whole lot of them.He is also a creative director and has worked for some artiste like J.Martins and a host of them.

This is my opinion and any body is entitled to have one. Have a say....

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