Get Out w/ Ola Kalejaye
“The issue I have with slave narratives is that very little racism actually looks like that in the lives of most Black people in America. A movie like Get Out—that’s the racism I experience all the time.” —Ola Kalejaye
Ola Kalejaye
Aditya and filmmaker Ola Kalejaye chat about tokenism, racism in the film industry, commodifying Black bodies, and the inspiring genius of Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning film Get Out (2017).
Ola is a writer-director originally from Lagos, Nigeria. He attended boarding school in England from the age of nine before moving stateside to attend Duke University. He graduated in 2016 with a B.A. in Visual and Media Studies and a creative writing minor.
He went on to attend the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles, CA, graduating with an MFA in Screenwriting in 2018. That same year he directed his first narrative short film, “A Million More,” which went on to premiere at the LA Shorts Intl. Film Festival in July 2019. He is currently traveling the country directing his first feature-length documentary 2020: A Van Odyssey.
Read the Mediaversity review of Get Out here and follow Ola on Instagram.