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| R-L: AMP President Ralph Nwadike, Board of Trustee Chairman Eddie Ugbomah, Secretary General Forster Ojehonmon |
(By Omiko Awa) – The leadership of the Association of
Movie Producers (AMP), last week, met at its Suru-Lere office in Lagos to chart
a way forward for the Nigerian movie industry, generally referred to as
Nollywood.
Speaking on the myriad of issues facing the creative
industry, AMP president, Ralph Nwadike disclosed that Nollywood could be
self-sustaining if governments at all levels put the right policies in place
and mandate relevant agencies to enforce them.
According to him, the Nigerian creative industry is not
expecting government to spoon-feed it because it has all it takes to make money
to sustain itself and even give loans to members to produce new films. He,
however, noted that with the current situation where uncensored foreign films
flood the market, aside piracy and cable pay stations showing Nigerian films
for free to the public, filmmakers and marketers have been denied their main
source of livelihood, making government to lose several millions of Naira that
would have come in inform of taxes and other payment.
