Good Girls Eat Dinner
Welcome to Good Girls Eat Dinner, the most interesting dinner party you'll ever go to, now in takeaway form.
Since 2015 we’ve been on a mission to provide more visible, female role models across the creative industries and beyond. At our popular real-life events we serve up four gloriously inspiring female speakers between the courses of a delicious meal. It always leaves everyone hungry for more, so here on the podcast we’ll dedicate a whole episode to each incredible guest. We won't be eating dinner but you certainly can!
Join me, Jo Wallace (Executive Creative Director by day, founder of Good Girls Eat Dinner by night) as I ask female pioneers to share their experiences, stories and advice. To leave you full of inspiration.
Good Girls Eat Dinner
S1 E6: Meena Ayittey – How a love for stepping outside of her comfort zone led to an award-winning career as a film director and screenwriter.
Jo welcomes award-winning director and screenwriter, Meena Ayittey, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Meena graduated with a fine art degree from Central Saint Martins and has been working in the film, television and advertising industries ever since.
Having worked her way up from a runner she established herself as a 3D VFX artist and Motion Graphic Designer, working for some of the best agencies; including Grey London, Droga5, Saatchi & Saatchi, Adam & Eve DDB, and R/GA.
Meena then moved into film directing, and has written and directed films and documentaries that have been screened throughout the UK, USA and Europe.
Topics covered:
- Stepping outside your comfort zone
- Loving extremes
- How childhood imagination creates storytelling skills
- St Martins; a whole new world
- Being drawn to telling stories to help make the invisible, visible
- Learnings taken from advertising into film-making
- ‘Black Creative: Race & The Advertising Industry’: a documentary with a message
- ‘All The Little Things’ a film about micro aggressions
- Why the current project is the one to be most proud of
- Motherhood
- Surrealist art
- The fear of ‘stale’
- Taking risks
- Not settling for less
- Meena’s Doggy Bag of Advice
Meena Ayittey's website: https://www.meenamachina.com
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