Patrick Elis Music Video Director Biography & Videos Directed By Patrick Elis

Patrick Elis Biography –Music Video Director

Patrick Elis is a Music Video Director born and brought up on Nigeria. He is also an actor.

Patrick Elis was born in in Warri , Delta State, Nigeria, Western part of Africa.
Patrick Elis has been directing music videos for close to over 10 year.
Patrick Elis breakthrough came after directing Wizkid’S first video “Holla at your Boy“.
Patrick Studied Cinematography in USA.
He’s the winner of AFRIMMA AWARD 2016 – Best Video Director

Patrick Elis education Background

Patrick Elis studied Architecture at Petroleum Training Institute in Warri. He moved to Lagos where he joined a group of guys that deal in music production and they started working together.

In 2008, Patrick Elis, went to South Africa to study and decided to go back to Nigeria after his studies and started working with different directors. In 2010, Patrick joined Nigezie as a director of photography before he jetted to The United States of America to study cinematography.

Videos Directed By Patrick Elis

Patrick started Directing since 2008 but but his star started shinning bright after he shot Wiz Kid’s “Holla at Your Boy” music video in 2010.

One of the videos and shows Patrick Elis has shot include: a reality shows, “Who Wants to be a
Millionaire”; He has worked worked with Nigezie for about a year; shot some TV commercials and a lot of stuffs for private organizations, which He didn’t put his name on.

But when He shot Wizkid’s video, He needed to put a
name, so that was how Patrick Elis’ name first appeared on TV as music video director. Elis also shot Samklef video called Labalaba. He shot Bonbe, Show me your Money, Thank You and a couple of others for wizkid.