When I lived in Ghana, one of the teachers mentioned to me that there was a new course called IB Film that was getting started. Film as a course? I thought. I must get involved with this!

It wasn’t until we moved to Shanghai that I was able to dip my toe in the waters of film, however. Some of you may or may not know this, but when I was eighteen, I applied to ONE university (besides the one that I was going to). It was New York University’s Tisch School of Arts and lo and behold, I was accepted! I was all set to go to the same film school as my heroes, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, and Oliver Stone. There was only one problem…