At 4 years old, I spent most of my time with my Dad, who then was 49. This experience granted me depth of vision and early life maturity. As a perpetual student, I'm practicing a keen eye for the beautiful, and my love for the profound feeds my fire.
With a genuine and positive attitude as part of his lifestyle and job description, Rodney Bidi Kimbangu is an entrepreneurial and multi-award-winning Filmmaker (Producer, Writer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor), Photographer, and Painter who speaks 5 languages among which he is fluent in 3. He is a Master Photographer by the famous photo competition platform GuruShots, as well as one of the 1000 chosen Mandela Washington Fellows 2016 and a University Innovation Fellow 2018. He started his artistic career at age 4, finger drawing on sand but was so immersed in what he was doing that he did not even know it.
In 1996, his elder sister, ten years senior to him, who was living in France for years, moved back to Kinshasa. One day she saw him finger drawing on the sand and told him that he had the gift to become an artist and that he should keep at it. He did not take it to heart because he planned on becoming an electromechanical engineer until the artistic inquiry took over him in high school.
Rodney speaks five languages, among which in order of learning, Lingala, French, English, Kikongo, and Japanese. He is fluent in the first three and can speak enough Kikongo and Japanese to get around.
Rodney says that two of the dreams he will never see come true are meeting Michael Jackson and having both his parents attend a red carpet with him. Both his parents will never do it together, as his mother passed away in the summer of 2018, soon after he finished his summer program with the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles.
Quotes
It costs me nothing to be happy, but it costs me my happiness to be angry.
- Rodney Kimbangu
Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere.
- La Ratatouille
At 4 years old, I spent most of my time with my Dad, who then was 49. This experience granted me depth of vision and early life maturity. As a perpetual student, I'm practicing a keen eye for the beautiful, and my love for the profound feeds my fire.