After being sworn-in as AGN president, see what Fred Amata got from federal govt (photos)
– Finally the federal governemt has heed the cry of Nigerian movie practitioners
– The government represented by the minister of Information and Culture has called for the review of the Motion Pictures Council of Nigeria
– The minister said the disunity in the industry might kill the dream
Nigeria’s minister of Information & Culture Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 inaugurated the Ministerial Committee on the Review of the Motion Pictures Council of Nigeria (MOPICON) at the Conference Hall, National Theatre, Lagos.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed and movie practitioners
According to the Mohammed: “One of the ways government can tackle frontally the many challenges militating against professional and career fulfillment in the movie industry is to have a central body we can always refer to in decisions aimed at improving and modernizing the motion picture industry. Also, government’s interest in the setting up of MOPICON is driven by the fact that we at the supervising ministry need to work with a formidable representative group that is empanelled to lobby for the growth, development and welfare of the industry and its practitioners as well as make for a better organized and more visible and vibrant Nollywood industry. We have no hidden agenda and we will not be part of anything that will stifle the growth of the burgeoning industry. MOPICON is and will remain an industry-run lobby and pressure body that will foster the achievement and maintenance of the highest professional and commercial standards in the motion picture industry as well as ensure the protection of the rights and privileges of motion picture practitioners in the lawful exercise of their profession.”
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Movie practioners at the inauguration of MOPICON Review Committee
The minister also noted that MOPICON will help revved up battle against piracy, the establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts and the need to reverse the lack of policy direction in the movie industry.
Minister of information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Peance Anyim- Osigwe and other movie practitioners
The minister said the only hitch to MOPICON is the disunity in the Nigerian movie industry. He said: “But I am wondering if I can get that kind of support with the level of disunity in the industry and the prevailing structural deficiency, which have not allowed the industry to speak with one voice. I cannot count the number of petitions I have received either for non-inclusion in this committee or against the idea of MOPICON since I announced the constitution of the review committee. Some have even suggested that we are about to set up another agency that will muzzle creativity and dictate to them the kind of movies to produce.”
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At the end a 29-man Review Committee of the Motion Picture Council of Nigeria (MOPICON) was set up. Meet seven members of the committee:
- Coordinator – Peace Anyiam Osigwe
- Deputy Coorinator – Mahmood Ali Balogun
- Deputy Secretary – Anthony Anih
- National Society of Cinematographers – Afam Chiazor
- Editors Guild – Fidelis Eweta (President)
- Creative Designers Guild – Biodun Abe
- DGN – Fred Amata
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