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21Mar
Olu Jacobs en route to Cameroon
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 Describe it as breaking news – you won’t be wrong! One of the frontline Nollywood actors Olu Jacobs is expected in Cameroon in the next couple of days. The actor par excellence will be in the country to take one of the lead roles in U-Turn, a movie to be produced and directed by Ashu Agbe. Olu Jacobs will be accompanied by Sam Uche Anyamele, another rising star in the Nigerian film industry.
“The choice of veteran Olu Jacobs and the dynamic up-and-coming Sam Uche Anyamele is a move which seeks to give the U-Turn an international exposure,” said Egbe, when TIPTOPSTARS contacted the film maker. The producer/director explained further: “It is also meant to give Cameroonian actors and crew members the opportunity to work with an acclaimed actor whose experience may be a lesson to aspirants in performing arts.”
Shooting of the said movie kicks off in the second week of April on locations in Douala in the Littoral region and Fako Division in the South West region. “We’ll be on set for six days,” Egbe revealed.
Known for his brilliance in acting, the veteran Olu Jacobs first came to Cameroon late 2004 to star in Before the Sunrise, an Agbor Gilbert Ebot production. The film was premiered in 2005. Many more of his colleagues have been streaming into Cameroon to do projects since then. Just before his second coming, Dakore Egbuson (with whom Olu Jacobs starred in Before the Sunrise nine years ago) came shooting Pink Poison Reloaded, directed by Ikechwuku Onyeka and co-produced by AGE Production and Cradle Rocks Productions Int’l, CRPI.
Meantime, Ashu Egbe will be in his fourth major production after When the Heart Says Yes in 2009 and In It Together in 2011. He had earlier, in 1990, produced Blood Disorder Not Disease, a docudrama that won a World Health Organization, WHO award during the first edition of the URTNA African Film and Television Festival in Nairobi in 1994. The film which was shot in the UK was projected on 18 African national TV stations.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 21 March 2013 12:25 |
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18Mar
Ninah’s Dowry secures seven AMMA nominations
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It is unarguably true that Victor Viyuoh’s Ninah’s Dowry has become the most prominent Cameroonian ambassador in film diplomacy. For quite some time now, the movie which was shot in 2010 and released in 2012 has been featuring and attracting enormous attention at film festivals. Fans of Cameroonian movies had not finished digesting the recent glory the movie amassed at the just-ended Pan African Film and Television Festival, FESPACO in Burkina Faso when news broke – that the Victor Viyuoh film was nominated at the African Movie Academy Awards, AMMA in Nigeria.
Were it not for Ninah’s Dowry, Cameroon would have been absent from this year’s AMMA. Ninah’s Dowry nomination was announced at the AMMA nomination party held in Malawi last week. According to the AMMA representative for Francophone Africa, Cameroonian-born Damasius Nyatum, Ninah’s Dowry secured seven (7) nominations in different categories. This means there is a probability, intact, that the Cameroonian movie may lift seven awards. TIPTOPSTARS in a subsequent update will be finding out how the Los Angeles-based writer and director of Ninah’s Dowry feels following the nomination of his movie at AMMA.
Before being selected for AMMA, Ninah’s Dowry had featured in other festival including the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival in Florida, USA.
Shot in Sagba, North West region of Cameroon, Ninah’s Dowry is directed by Victor Viyuoh featuring Mbufung Seikeh, Anurin Nwunembom, Vugar Samson, Nkwah Kingsley, Nsuh George (Big George), Christa Eka, Nobert Kecha, Bodi Rolland Tamfu, Ndenge Dian Thelma Cheny, Ekwa, Sally Talla, Photem Michael, Che Fuh Hilarius, Adambi Mbango Ngene, etc.
The 9th edition of AMMA takes place on the night of April 20, 2013 in Yenagoa, capital of the oil-rich Bayelsa State in Nigeria.
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Last Updated on Monday, 18 March 2013 18:26 |
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