Ex PMAN president,
movie maker and arts impresario, Femi Lasode, is back with a bang! As you read
this story, he’s on location in Lekki, Lagos, shooting his next movie entitled
Stolen Treasures.
“This is a project
that’s very close to my heart. I’ve been dreaming of this project forever.
Stolen Treasures is all about creating awareness about Nigeria’s stolen
artifacts abroad. We need to highlight the issue of the need to recover our
artifacts. I am not the first to do it though; Chief Eddie Ugboma did it in his
movie, The Mask. We want people to be aware that this is a very important
issue. All our artifacts are in Paris and other museums around the world; what
we are doing is creating awareness about our African heritage and the need to
retrieve these artifacts,” an excited Lasode told The Entertainer.
Written by Lasode,
Stolen Treasures is an adventure story about a Briton who stumbles on the map
of a treasure throve buried somewhere in Nigeria. Charmed by the lucre that lay
waiting for him if he could locate the treasure, he embarks on a journey to
Africa that takes him to Nigeria and then a tale of romance, betrayal and
breath taking adventure begins to unfold as the characters are engaged in a
race against time to lay their hands on the treasure.
The cast includes
Prisca Iwuoha, Belinda Effah, Angel Ufuoma, Clarion Chukwura AMAA award winner,
Gbenga Richards, veterans, Chief Eddie Ugboma and Larry Williams, Wale Adebayo,
Afro beat singer Alariwo, Jide Kosoko,
Seyi Allen, Phillippe and Meanwhile, Lasode also opened on his film village:
“We’ve been hearing about film villages all over but we haven’t seen anything.
Primarily the film shoot is to promote my film village because we believe the
film village should be self sufficient. We are using this as a test run. We are
in partnership with Best Resort Hotels and were building a film village at
Majekodunmi Farms. We are building from scratch and that’s the reason you see
so much equipment around. Everything here is going to be used for the film
village.”
On why he chose to
write such a script, Lasode continued: “I love adventurous stories. I grew up
on them. Indiana Jones was one of my favourites; I haven’t seen anything like
that in Nigeria; something that even kids would enjoy.”
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