Kemi Lala Akindoju

Actor, Producer and Casting Director
The Make It Happen Productions

⁠Award-winning actor, producer and casting director who is creditedasakeyplayer in the Nigerian movie industry known as Nollywood. ⁠She is also a leading voice in the Nigerian theatre space. ⁠In 2011 she started ‘Open Mic Theatre’, a talent generating theatre platformfor actorsandwriterswhere many of today’s Nollywood stars were discovered.

Her most recent credits include Prime Video’s first African Original ‘Gangs of Lagos’ and Netflix’s‘TheBlackBook’, both as producer. She is also the casting director on NAACP nominated ‘Eyimofe’ &Disney’sfirst Nigerian animation series ‘Iwaju’. She is the ⁠winner of the most promising actor award at the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) IN2015&TheTrailblazer Award at the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA) in 2016. Kemi is the first Senior Development Executive (Movies) for Nigeria at Amazon Studios & Prime Video. An independent filmmaker and is committed to telling authentic African stories for a global audience through her company, The Make It Happen Productions