Few
weeks after the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State declared Comrade
Victor Ashaolu as the authentic president of Association of Nigerian
Theatre-Arts Practitioners (ANTP), another association has emerged, known as Movies
Ambassadors.
The
new association, which we learnt will bring the youths in the industry together
to restructure the industry is being piloted by popular actors, Saheed Balogun,
Yomi Fabiyi, Kunle Afford and Mercy Aigbe-Gentry.
Speaking
with one of the brains behind Movie Ambassador, Yomi Fabiyi, he told us that
the major reason behind the formation of the association is to bring the youths
in the industry together to restructure the industry. “Things are not working
right in the industry and we all know it and everybody keeps quiet. Producers are
not doing the right thing; only a very few of us are doing better and
entertainment, especially movies must not die. The government wants to help but
we are not coming out strongly. There will be a regulatory body that will see
to the activities of film bodies.
The
Movie Ambassadors will be speaking to the government and let them know where
film makers have got it wrong; and for them to see how they can correct us, because
it’s going to be very difficult for us to correct ourselves, because there will
be a kind of ego because nobody wants to listen to each other because everybody
is a boss on his own. The industry is nose-diving and we are indirectly robbing
the audience. Things are deteriorating and we need to arrest the situation. We
want to use this to correct and rebrand ourselves with the Movie Ambassadors Association.
Imagine some popular actors will collect money to feature in films and will not
show up for the production, it’s wrong. There are lots of things going on in
the industry that are affecting the industry and the nation through this.
Yomi
said further that Movie Ambassadors will work with the umbrella body ANTP and
if there’s any crisis in the umbrella body, it can easily be thrashed because
the voice of the youths can’t be undermined. “If the youths are not in unison
and nobody could speak for the youth and looking at our future being mortgaged
by some particular set of people will not be accepted by the youths. We’ve been
suffering for a long time and that’s why we focused on the Movie Ambassadors Association
together because in unity we win and in division we fall”. The
new association which was inaugurated on February 14, 2014, we learnt will have
its election in March 2014 to choose its exco members.
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