By Gregory Austin Nwakunor
22 February 2025 |
2:33 am
The Managing Director/Chief Government of Nigerian Movie Company, Dr Ali Nuhu, has advocated for steady large movie infrastructure improvement in addition to sustainable partnerships to assist the expansion of Nigeria’s movie trade.
The Managing Director/Chief Government of Nigerian Movie Company, Dr Ali Nuhu, has advocated for steady large movie infrastructure improvement in addition to sustainable partnerships to assist the expansion of Nigeria’s movie trade.
Consequently, NFC, he stated, “is unwaveringly dedicated to advancing Nigeria’s movie trade by strategic infrastructure upgrades, coverage innovation, and world collaboration that catalyses not solely the movie trade progress of Nigeria however, Africa as a Continent.”
Talking at ‘The Reel Balancing Act: Policymakers, Filmmakers, and the Way forward for Cinema,’ of the Afro-Berlin session – Berlinale Movie Pageant, in Germany, Nuhu drew consideration of panelists and different delegates to Nigeria’s transformative progress underneath the Federal Authorities’s roadmap for the artistic sector. Sustainable partnerships, he stated, “have been wanted to place Africa’s cinema as a world powerhouse.”
He listed a number of the interventions by the administration of President Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) that function tips that could Nigeria’s movie trade improvement and transformative journey, with large infrastructure and pleasant funding coverage initiatives parts. Revitalising legacy infrastructure on the NFC whereas prioritising new initiatives to raise Nigeria’s movie ecosystem he stated, are being aggressively being pursued. “After I assumed workplace, my imaginative and prescient was clear: to construct a movie trade for our nation anchored on world-class infrastructure, enabling insurance policies, and sustainable partnerships. Right now, we’re witnessing the fruits of our willpower and dedication” he said. Different sectoral milestones to incorporate the not too long ago launched Tax Reform Invoice earlier than the Nationwide Meeting which when handed into regulation will present incentives for native and worldwide buyers in Nigeria’s movie sector, particularly rebates for movie manufacturing that make the most of native expertise, services and places, in addition to tax holidays for studios and gear producers are commendable. “This reform is a game-changer, lowering boundaries to investments and empowering filmmakers to dream greater,” Nuhu averred.
Moreover, he counseled “authorities’s resolve to combine the artistic sector into nationwide financial planning, which has ensured that movie and tradition are now not afterthoughts however central to Nigeria’s progress agenda.
The Nationwide Movie Institute (NFI), he stated, “is present process modernization and transformation, with envisioned facility, school improve and curricular assessment supposed to equip rising filmmakers with cutting-edge expertise in digital manufacturing, animation, and AI-driven storytelling instruments.”
Nuhu urged African filmmakers and policymakers to unite in addressing challenges reminiscent of piracy, funding gaps, and distribution boundaries. “Our success lies in collaboration — throughout borders, sectors, and generations. With improved infrastructure, progressive insurance policies, and world solidarity, African cinema is not going to solely thrive however dominate,” he stated.
In the meantime, NFC has introduced a strategic partnership with trade giants Gagu Singh, famend Producer & Distributor for the Gulf Area, CEO Filmmasterllc, and Moses Babatope, CEO of Nile Leisure.
Collectively, we’re bridging the hole between the Nigerian Movie Business and the Gulf Area! Beginning April, Nigerian films will debut within the Gulf Area, following a grand premiere. This monumental collaboration marks a big milestone in NFC’s mission to showcase Nollywood’s wealthy storytelling to a broader viewers.
