Exclusive Photos of the UK Premiere of Tango With Me

Tango with Me trailer.

Mahmood Ali-Balogun & Pastor (Mrs) Ogochi Agbasimelo.

It is our pleasure to present the exclusive photographs of the successful August 16 UK premiere of Mahmood Ali-Balogun’s Tango with Me at the Odeon IMAX Greenwich Cinema in London. In fact the Odeon calls it a great film and gives it the maximum five stars! And it has also been well reviewed by the Film Blog of The Guardian of UK. Tango With Me's budget is high by African standards (80-100m naira – about £326,000).
DJ Abass, the entertainment consultant" for African events in London was the compere.

Akin Salami, Mahmood Ali-Balogun & Joseph Benjamin

Alfred Executive Director Nollywood TV & Guest.

Pastor (Mrs) Ogochi Agbasimelo.

Charles Thompson MBE being interviewed.

DJ Abass & Friends.

Moji & Ken Smart.

Joseph Benjamin

Joseph Benjamin & Friend.

Mike Abiola & Golda John.

Segilola Scott & Friend

Mahmood Ali-Balogun being interviewed.


Genre: Drama
Film running length: 103 min
(excl trailers and advertisements)
UK Release Date: 24/8/2012
Directed by: Mahmood Ali-Balogun
Country: Nigeria
Language: English
Distributor: Evrit Films

Starring the new poster boy of Nollywood Joseph Benjamin and Nollywood diva Genevieve Nnaji in the leading roles

One of the beautiful ladies at the event.

Tango with Me tells the story of Lola (Genevieve Nnaji) and Uzo (Joseph Benjamin), a Nigerian couple looking forward to a life of married bliss together. But when the happiest day of their lives becomes one of their saddest, the couple set off on a journey of self discovery where they experience the true power of forgiveness.

"What we are going through what  Hollywood went through and Bollywood went through," said Ali-Balogun, the director of Tango With Me, from the Film Blog of The Guardian of UK.

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Nollywood Reloaded

Nollywood actually crashed, but Nollywood is now reloaded with the resurgence of the trailer-blazers and the emergence of new kids on the block such as Chineze Anyaene whose film IJE, the Journey has redefined Nollywood and if she had submitted it for the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), Kunle Afolayan would have been second best with his movie The Figurine.

Chineze Anyaene’s IJE has taken Nollywood to places Nollywood has never been before with official selection in 18 international film festivals and winning five major awards, including a coveted award for Best Picture and another one for Excellence in film making.

Mahmood Ali-Balogun's 35mm film Tango with Me is an ambitious psychoanalytical film with the major crew from Los Angeles, Hollywood; and over N80 million budget without sponsors.

Chico Ejiro, the Mr. prolific in Nollywood is about to shoot the most challenging movie in his career, Sunset in Darfur.
Zik Zulu Okafor is doing new movies of outstanding quality.

Then some Nigerian young Turks of the film industry Faruk Lasaki, Didi Chika, Chike Ibekwe and others have been selected for the Babylon International film workshop and they were at the International Film Festival Berlin (February 16th-20th) and now preparing to show the clips of their film projects at the Zuma film festival in Abuja from tomorrow Sunday May 2, 2010, in Abuja.
The two filmmakers I have interviewed are Faruk Lasaki who is making a film on the Niger Delta, with the working title of Port Harcourt and Chike Ibekwe, whose film Letter to the Professor is featuring the lionized first African Nobel Laureate in Literature, Prof. Wole Soyinka. The budget for one of the films is over two million euros.


A Young Nigerian director has done thrilling film where the lovers were engaged in real live sexual intercourse. But it not indecency.

The real films are coming to take the Nigerian film industry to the next level in competition with the best in the world.
Not in quantity, but in professional quality.

This is it, Nollywood Reloaded.
CUT!

~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima