Film/TV Workshop | 25 April 2016 12:40 CET

Nollywood Must produce Movies to Foster National Development- Alade- Bamgbala

Source: Nollywoodgists.com

Veteran entertainer, Titlilope Alade-Bamgbala, the Chief Executive Officer of HappyBoys Entertainment has called on stakeholders of Nollywood to do extra aside entertaining, educating and informing the society at large, he wants the body to find solutions that would lead to development in Nigeria.

Alade-Bamgbala has decried that Nollywood has not been able to raise revenue for the development of Nigeria “Over the years, the movie production in the country has promoted more of cultural values and entertainment.But today, the movie industry could serve as a veritable tool for transformation of the country,“ he said.

“Films production should be used as an instrument of development and not merely for entertainment. Movies, all over the world, have been used major instruments for attaining transformation. Film makers must produce movies to foster economic, cultural, social and political consciousness of the people so as to give a voice on how best to increase development, “ he said.

He added “My organisation has groomed and trained more than 33 youths in film production. Other stakeholders should emulate this idea to develop the industry, “ he revealed and said that movies were veritable tools of government and other stakeholders to initiate, canvass for support on policies and programmes of development.

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