A communications and entertainment company, Audio Visual First,
premieres four new films – Beneath Her Veil, Night for Sex, Where Does Beauty
Go? and One Minute Man – in Lagos, AKEEM LASISI writes
As the Nigerian film industry strives to reinvent itself, an
organisation, Audio Visual First, has unveiled some initiatives to enrich
people’s entertainment experience. The group comprising seasoned advertising
communications professionals and content professionals did this in Lagos on
Sunday, when it premiered four films – Beneath Her Veil, Night for Sex, Where
Does Beauty Go? and One Minute man.
AVF did this under the ‘50 Naira Story Initiative’, which aims at
churning out not less than 18 movies annually. The company says with the
Nigerian movie industry having grown from near obscurity and risen to be the
second biggest film industry in the world, even if in terms of sheer number of
movies released, there is a lot of things to appreciate.
It adds, “We believe this can be improved upon by attaining the same
ranking in the world in absolute terms of quality and production values and not
just share numbers. AVF ‘50 Naira Story Initiative’ has created a structure
where movies are produced with a model quite reminiscent of a factory
production line. We have assembled personnel working on the project. Our
mandate is to produce 18 movies each year, with an aim of discovering new
talents and creating more job opportunities for industry practitioners, as well
as positioning the country’s vast people and resource in a positive light to
the rest of the world.”
The producer’s note indicates that in ‘Beneath her Veil’, Dede Okosun
tries to get her husband to agree to a divorce at the same time her former best
friend’s ex-husband, Toni Akinbami, is trying to ensure a friendly
relationship.
“Nothing goes well on both end and the night ends in a disaster. The
morning after is worse as Dede watches her husband get shot brutally right in
front of her. Free from her troubled past and determined to seek love and
forgiveness from the people she has hurt in the past, she begins to look for a
way to get back in her best friend’s good books,” it adds.
Written by Tomilola Adeyemo, directed by Adeyinka Oduniyi and produced
by Oyeronke Orijajogun, the movie features Olumide Bakare, Kalu Ikeagwu, Wole
Ojo, Peggy Eloho Ovire, Tina Mba, Moyo Lawal, Yeni Kuti and many more.
In ‘Night for Sex’, two couples are on a second honeymoon to spice up
their relationship, hoping to blur a past of emotional abuse and infidelity.
Unfortunately for them, their spouses have a hidden agenda that invokes a lot
of intrigues in the movie. It features Moyo Lawal, Mary Njoku, Kalu Ikeagwu, Chinedu
Emmanuel “NEDU”, Akinwale Sodade “Wale Rubber” and Mary Lazarus.
It was written and directed by Abiodun Williams and produced by
Orijajogun.
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