We are planning to establish Int’l movie studio in Nigeria—BoI boss

Speaking further, Mr. Rasheed said, while the bank is still working towards actualizing the community cinema project to boost film distribution in the country, BoI is also planning to support the establishments of international quality movie studios in Nigeria. “At the bank of industry, we have decided that Nollywood should be supported and very strongly for us to move to the next level. When we introduced the fund, we have three objectives, one to ensure that people like Kunle who have shown that quality and helped in elevating African films to international standard, and secondly, we ensure we can support the movie distribution in a different paradigm.”

“We are still working on the community cinema and we will continue to encourage enterprenures that want to do business in that regard. The third objective is to support the establishments of international quality movie studios in Nigeria. We are really pleased to be here. You happened to be the very first beneficiary under our NollyFund and we thought it was important that we come here to show our support for you and the cast while you are still on set. This is just the beginning, we plan to do a lot more, we are development bank and our objective is to ensure that all the critical sectors in Nigeria get support from Bank of Industry. We are proud that you are a pace setter in this regard. You have done a very successful productions in the past, we have no doubt that this film is going to be a blast.”

The cast include Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, entertainer and activist from Benin, Angélique Kidjo; Haitan actor and model Jimmy Jean-Louis, best known for his role as The Haitan on the NBC television series Heroes; consummate actor, and founder of the New Nigeria Cinema movement, Wale Ojo; French-Ivorian actress and model, Aurelie Eliam; South African actor and presenter, Nicolaos Panagiotopoulos; Nigerian actress, Kemi Lala Akindoju; Moroccan star, Fatim Layachi; Kenyan actor Peter King, and Nigerian actress, Hilda Dokubo among others.