Founder of the EbonyLife group, Dr. Mo Abudu, has proposed collaboration towards achieving global blockbusters.
She said, due to limited resources, individual filmmakers might not be able to achieve such in Nigera.
The solution, according to her, could thus be coming together.
She said, “Most important is investing in high-quality productions. It is important that we understand that there is an international standard and with lots of our filmmakers having restricted budgets, which is why we need collaboration. You can’t do everything, you can’t do it all by yourself, imagine we put our resources together to make a global blockbuster, it is going to travel a lot further, and earn a lot more.”
Abudu made this known while delivering her keynote address at a two-day conference organised by the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB.
The film producer, who doubles as a director, also opined that Nigerian storytellers must not lose the authenticity of the African stories while trying to go global.
Speaking further, Abudu advised that in appealing to a global audience, filmmakers and storytellers must understand universal themes and inculcate that into their stories.
