Olakunle Martini Akande

Olakunle Martini Akande (born September 18, 1993, in Ibadan, Nigeria) is a filmmaker, a film editor, and a producer who specializes majorly in post-production.

Education After secondary education, Akande gained admission to the University of Ibadan where he studied statistics, made meaningful connections with creatives and up-and-coming filmmakers like himself, delved into acting for a while and eventually found solace in film editing.

Career According to Olakunle, I didn’t set out to become a film editor. In fact, my first love was acting. I had dreams of performing, of being on stage or in front of a camera. But like many people trying to break into the industry, I quickly found out how difficult it was to land the kind of roles I wanted. The opportunities just weren’t coming. Still, my friends and I were passionate about filmmaking, so, we started making our own short films. But we kept running into the same problem: editors would take too long or didn’t really get what we were trying to do. So I decided to give it a shot myself. I had some experience editing wedding and event videos, so I figured, why not? That decision changed everything. I started editing our projects, and the more I did it, the more i realized how much i love the process. This summarizes the career history of Olakunle Akande, from where he started his editing career fully.

His first movie edit was Musomania , from which he grew to edit many other high-profile films like

Gangs of Lagos

Brotherhood

Glamour Girls

Christmas in Lagos and

Adire