Sayōnara: Coming Soon on Amazon Prime Video Direct

Sayōnara: Coming Soon on Amazon Prime Video Direct

From the over 40 hours footage of my documentary film project, "Lagos in Motion", I have produced "Sayōnara" to be released on Amazon Prime Video Direct.

Cheers!

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima
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Rita Dominic: The Best Actress of the Year in 2021 in Nollywood

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Rita Dominic: The Best Actress of the Year in 2021 in Nollywood

Rita Dominic as Anjola in "La Femme Anjola" by Mildred Okwo.

"La Femme Anjola" revolves around a stockbroker who fell in love with a mysterious woman. Anjola is married to a gangster who owns a nightclub where she does live performances.

Rita Dominic is one of the best actors not only in NIgeria, but the rest of Africa and the world. She is one of the few actors I know who can turn a bad screenplay into a masterpiece.

The cinematic experience of "La Femme Anjola" will be more romantic when dubbed in the French language and Spanish language. Mildred Okwo should have the theatrical release of the French language copy in French speaking countries and the Spanish language copy in Spanish speaking countries.

The subtleties in the storytelling and intricate cinematography made this unique romantic drama the most accomplished of all the movies  produced by NIgerian filmmakers in 2021. The intellectual abilities of the director were shown in the artistry, imagery and poetry of "La Femme Anjola". It is going to become one of the classics of African cinema.

- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series
The first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry since 2013,, printed in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Art and book design by Juvelin Aripal in the Philippines.
Published by International Digital Post Network Limited.

"Naked Beauty" Screenplay for Sale

"Naked Beauty" screenplay by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima and Dr. Chika Christian Onu (Living in Bondage 2, Glamour Girls, Karashika, Peacemaker) is available for film production.

The film production must have a budget of not less than US$2m and the résumé (including filmography) of the director matters to us.
"Naked Beauty" is a romantic drama set in Agaja fishing village on Bonny Island in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

Naked Beauty

I saw you in the twilight
Disrobed in the state of nature
And I gaped and gasped in awesome delight
Spellbound and elated in rapture
As I beheld your voluptuous features
As I gazed upon your priceless treasures
From peak of the mountain
I went down to the fountain
In the valley of your mons veneris
And holding on to your alluring pillars
I have been transfixed at the altar of your estuary
The estuary of your conjugal sanctuary.

I saw the falconer trading his falcon
With the bounty hunter for his gun
Lost in their lust for your connubial offerings
Spellbound by the allures of your charms
And I came in the fleeting mist of the fleeing night
To behold you even before the Aurora Borealis
And saw you embracing the heavenly light
As Father Heaven kissed Mother Earth
And you were enchanted in heavenly mirth
Oblivious of my winking mortal eyes
Hypnotized in the ether of celestial bliss.
At the unveiling of the beloved daughter of Eve
Made perfect in the bowels of boundless love.

Let the fire be kindled in my heart
The eternal flame of my spirit
The breath of eternity
The ether of life formed in purity
Born bare and born free
As my enchanted eyes can now see
Freed from the chains of pains
The pains of natal travails
Oh! Woman! Thou art the vessel of motherhood.
And in thy mammary gourds abound our first food
How much every man is bound to thy loins
For from the canal every man is born
Through the third eye of Eve where love flows
From the seed sown the fruit is grown
The sweetest fruit of love is found in the virgin
To behold your naked beauty is not a sin.

~~ Orikinla Oosinachi, 2006.

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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