The 12-year-old “world’s youngest filmmaker,” Zuriel Oduwole is one hell of an overachiever. She has already produced and directed four documentaries, which all focus on African issues, and interviewed 14 government leaders.
As a side project, she started her own nonprofit, which focuses on education in developing nations. She used web tools to teach herself how to write scripts and edit video, and she’s tackled complex political issues that some of us might scroll right past on our iPhones.
Oduwole’s first documentary, 2012’s The Ghana Revolution, was the result of a school documentary-filmmaking competition, according to CNN. Her second, Educating and Healing Africa Out of Poverty, looked at the creation of the African Union in 1963, and her third film, Technology in Educational Development, was released in 2014 and was her first jump into the importance of educating children — both girls and boys — in developing African nations. She spoke to The Huffington Post about the beginning of her documentary film career:
My first interview was when I was 9 years old when I went to interview former president of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, for my documentary on the Ghana revolution. I was so nervous, but wanted to do it.
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