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Movie
By Vezi Isike
Lagos, July 11, 2017(NAN) Isaac Izoya, Founder, Nollywood Europe Golden Awards(NEGA), has said that constant interactions and collaborations between filmmakers in Nigeria and their counterparts in the Diaspora will aid dynamism of movies in the entertainment industry.
Izoya, an award winning stakeholder in the entertainment industry, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos that local filmmakers and those from other climes needed to form a workable synergy to improve the qualities of their movies.
According to him; movie production can be used to transform the African continent, if filmmakers can produce movies that have quality contents.
“Entertainment is amongst the greatest tools used in bringing people together and to educate them on various platforms.
“If stakeholders in the film business spend quality time to develop ideas and turn them into movies; such movies will become the greatest weapon for correcting the ills of the society and transform the society for the better,” he said.
He said that filmmakers should strive toward achieving why the movie industry in Nigeria was tagged Nollywood and what the priority of the sector should be.
“In my candid opinion, we are supposed to uplift and sustain the way of life that is predominant in our society.
“Today, we have dominated the world with our movies but what is the impact on the global market.
“Do we promote our culture with our movies or we are helping foreigners to sustain their cultures rather than selling our norms and values to the rest of the world?’’
Izoya appealed to the government to assist the industry more so that the practitioners could live up to expectation.
“Government has to grow the sector by investing more in it so that it will be able to compete with its international peers.
“There is no crime for practitioners to have incentives that will create an arousing effect on the society in the long run,” he said.
NAN reports that Izoya; a Germany-based Culture Ambassador and with many awards to his credit, has been promoting Nollywood for nearly two decades in Europe under NEGA.
NAN also reports that Izoya had begun mobilizing filmmakers under the umbrella of Nollywood to participate in this year’s awards which would hold in Frankfurt, Germany in September. (NAN)
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Edited by Peter Dada