A three billion Naira grant programme has been established
by the Federal Government to solve the main challenges impeding the growth of
the Nigerian movie industry. The Nigerian government is
organising a workshop
for stakeholders aimed at restructuring and reinvigorating Project ACT
Nollywood.
The workshop, which is scheduled for Friday July 1, would be
attended by representatives of the key stakeholders in the Nigerian Film
industry – the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, the leadership of
Nollywood, the Actors Guild, Film and Videos Censors Board, the Nigerian Film
Corporation and the Nigerian Copyright Commission. It is being organised by the
Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun.
Mrs Adeosun said the ideas discussed during the workshop
would be part of the inputs for restructuring the project to ensure its
sustainability. So far, the Project ACT Nollywood has implemented specialist
training programmes in Nigeria and abroad in which 247 practitioners have been
trained to improve their technical and professional capacities in the
entertainment industry.
Similarly, 113 film projects, employing 2,436 people, have
been co-financed through grants from the fund at the cost of 799 million Naira,
while the Innovative Film Distribution Programme has been designed to support
viable solutions in film distribution and the prevention of privacy. One major
issue that the workshop will be looking to address is that of piracy, as the
World Bank had estimated that for each copy of a Nigerian film sold, nine
pirated copies are sold.
The National Bureau for Statistics, has estimated that the
Nigerian Film industry contributed 1.4 per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic
Product in 2013 and 2014, and employed an estimated 250,000 people directly.
Source: Channels TV
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