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| Mary Njoku |
So,
ROK on DStv was one a few weeks ago. I thought it important to tell the story
of how it came to be. How a new approach to movie making fundamentally returned
Nollywood to its roots as a medium to tell our stories.
In
2011, when Mrs Njoku was still Miss Remmy, she told me that she would prefer,
by 40, to end up behind the camera rather than in front of it. That was her
dream. She always loved storytelling and felt that Alaba-led filmmaking was
disconnected from the storytelling core which had popularised Nollywood. She
had all these ideas but no-one would really listen. I was her boyfriend so I
was obliged to. Everyone who knows me knows I am pretty much wrapped up in
myself and I rarely bother about anyone else. So it pretty much went in one ear
and out the next. Even though she had been in arguably the biggest hit of 2011,
Blackberry Babes, the year was a dry period for movie making for Miss Remmy.
