Actress and producer Ruth Kadiri has shared what motivated her to begin uploading her movies on the YouTube platform.
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The actress stated that she started posting her movies on YouTube to have a platform where she could share her stories freely, without limitations.
Speaking on the BBC Pidgin platform, Ruth Kadiri revealed that despite initial discouragement, she still chose to give it a try.
She mentioned that the primary reason she started was boredom during her travel to give birth to her child.
Ruth Kadiri observed that some individuals were uploading their movies on YouTube and chose to do the same after returning from maternity leave.
In her words:
“I have been a producer for a long time but there are too many rules and regulations during production,”
“So I called my team and told them that I wanted an opportunity to express myself. For instance, if I see something online I want to learn it and after learning, I want to upload it somewhere.
“When I traveled to give birth, I was bored and started watching a lot of musical videos and noticed that some people put their films on YouTube.
“I told myself that I’ll come back to try it. Some people discouraged me and told me that there is no money in it. But because I needed a platform to express myself and tell my stories, I decided to try it.
“I told my team that we should shoot and if the film is not good enough, we will learn and use it as a learning process.”
She added;
“Personally I don’t worry about competition and I feel like as filmmakers, we are at the forefront and we hustle.
“If you remove YouTube from the industry, apart from filmmakers and content creators, people will go hungry.
“YouTube is an opportunity for a lot of filmmakers to make money and that’
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