Episode 87 - Lighting design with Christian Epps and Dami Ayorinde

In this episode we are joined by Christian Epps and Dami Ayorinde talking all things lighting.

Christian Epps is a lighting designer who has spent more than three decades working in major motion pictures, broadcast television, commercials, live theatre, dance, music videos and special events. In 2006 he began designing concerts and television in Nigeria and countries in Africa. Christian recently lit Netflix’s first original African production Queen Sono in Johannesburg and Netflix’s first production in Nigeria. He has worked on projects with notable names such as Nike and LeBron James, Spike Lee, and with Tessa Thompson on Amazon. In 2014 he and others founded Lights, Camera, Diaspora!, which is a Hollywood-based social enterprise non-profit that bridges the gap between the African and African Diaspora entertainment production industries. Since 2015, the company has conducted over 25 workshops and technical masterclasses in 8 countries in Africa. Christian won the Africa Diaspora Awards ‘Creative Person of the Year’ Award in 2017.

Dami Ayorinde is a 19 year old lighting technician from Nigeria who started in the industry as a trainee on a Netflix original with Christian Epps. She has been working actively in lighting departments since then.

Christian and Dami talk to us about their insights on the industry through their interesting perspectives of old and new, and illuminate us about lighting in the world of film and entertainment. 

https://www.christianepps.com https://www.lightscameradiaspora.org

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Thanks to David Zieher who composed our music.