Three Somali Siblings in "BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE"

Screenshots from my ongoing film production, "BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE".

Location

Gedo, Somalia, 

Africa.

Sharmake,Ayaan and Libaan with their donkey and cart of loads.

- By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima.

Produced with Gemini 

© 2026. EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima. All rights reserved.

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#gedo

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#africa

New Film Alert: BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

 

From my ongoing film, "BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE".

The two journalists, John and Julie with their emergency services jeep in the arid landscape of Gedo, Somalia during a drought, surrounded by dusty terrain, sparse acacia trees, and traditional thatched-roof huts under a harsh desert sun.

They are giving relief supplies to the people.

JOHN says:

"This is our last supply "

JULIE says:

"Okay. John. Then we can return to base."

JOHN says:

"The scorching sun is too much "

- By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima.

Images produced with Gemini 

© 2026. EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima. All rights reserved.

About Gedo

"Gedo (Somali: Gedo, Maay: Gethy, Arabic: جيذو, Italian: Ghedo or Ghedu) is an administrative region (gobol) in Jubaland, southern Somalia. Its regional capital is Garbahaarreey. The region was formed during 1974 and is bordered by the Ogaden in Ethiopia, the North Eastern Province in Kenya, and the Somali regions of Bakool, Bay, Jubbada Dhexe (Middle Juba), and Jubbada Hoose (Lower Juba) further down east. The southern parts of Gedo, west of the Jubba River, used to be part of the old British Trans-Juba region during half of the seventy years of the colonial era in Africa from 1890 to 1960. The British and Italians fought twice over this area

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World Premiere of "The Education of Lantana"

The World Premiere of  "The Education of Lantana" for the celebration of the United Nations' International Day for the Girl Child on October 11, 2026 happened yesterday on my Screen Naija Cinema Channel on YouTube.

The short film totally produced with Google Gemini is on the official Theme: End child marriage and invest in girls' rights" of the United Nations

Focus Areas: Stopping child marriage, improving girls' access to education, fighting gender-based violence, and supporting youth-led advocacy and climate leadership. 

Attached the full soundtracks

"Beyond The Grass" and "Lantana's Promise"

With all the glory to Almighty God JEHOVAH who is the only one who supported me for this groundbreaking film production, which is first time that any Nigerian filmmaker will produce a film especial for the celebration of the annual  United Nations' International Day for the Girl.

I am also the first person to start the celebration in Nigeria with the Nigerian 

Premiere of “Girl Rising” with Holly Gordon of 10x10 and Participant Media on October 11-12, 2013. 

I also initiated the  Nigerian premiere of "HE NAMED ME MALALA" for the MALALA Fund on October 11, 2015.

"Nigerian premiere of "In The Name of Your Daughter" cosponsored by the High Commission of Canada in Nigeria on May 23, 2019.

"The Education of Lantana" is about a bright Muslim girl who boldly refused child marriage in northern Nigeria and appealed to go to school. 

Lantana said that Islam emphasized that the education of girls is a fundamental duty and an equal right for both males and females. A mandatory duty, because seeking knowledge is a sacred obligation for every Muslim, regardless of gender, as taught by Prophet Muhammad, under the protection of human intellect (al-Aql), enabling both men and women to make sound moral choices and understand their faith: that educated girls grow into knowledgeable mothers and community pillars who guide future generations.

"We are the mothers of nations."

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#education

#internationaldayforthegirlchild

#girls

#genderequality

#humanrights

#leadership

Big Screen Hack London 2026

 

Big Screen Hack London is a premiere festival and hackathon circuit designed for AI-native filmmakers and developers. The October 2026 edition brings creative minds together over five days to develop short film pilots from scratch using advanced creative-AI tools. "

453 people took part
186 films and ads handed in, by 122 teams
More than 6 hours of brand new work for the judges
126 entries for The Greenlight, 33 for The Big Sell and 26 for Micro Drama
28 judges now working through all of it

You should be really proud of that.

The poster wall is live too, with 80 posters on it already. Go and have a look:
https://www.bigscreenhack.com/posters

If you haven’t uploaded your poster yet, please do, in the highest quality you possibly can. They’re going to look amazing at the IMAX and online 🎬 

A Time Travel with AI

 

Love is Not By Force

 Trapped in a gilded marriage to a ruthless Banana Island billionaire, a young Lagos woman risks her fortune and safety when she falls for a proud roadside mechanic, igniting a high-society war where love cannot be bought or forced."

New Nigerians Report Online Header

 

IGNORANCE is not BLISS

 

IGNORANCE is not BLISS
IGNORANCE Kills.
Ignorance begets violence.

Plato said:
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Martin Luther King Jr said:
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima,

Author of "Diary of the Memory Keeper" and other books.
https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima

Willful ignorance is the deliberate choice to ignore facts, truth, or reality because knowing them would be inconvenient or challenging.

#ignorance
#disobedience
#stupidity
#violence
#truth
#plato
#martinlutherking

"Naked Beauty" in Production

First clip of my "Naked Beauty" romantic drama set in the Niger Delta in 2006.

https://lnkd.in/p/dUafA6dp

The innocent beauty of people in contrast to the beast of violence in the region caused by oil theft, destruction of oil pipelines and battles of power by the warlords in kidnappings and killings. 

Synopsis

A National Geographic photographer discovers Oma, whose black beauty is the epitome of the greatest treasure of the Niger Delta of NIgeria and he must save her before it is too late.

Naked Beauty is the screenplay of a romantic art film and thriller on the awesome beauty of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, showing the purity of the nudity of an African virgin on an Island as the personification of the greatest asset of the land which is not her highly priced crude oil, but the people and their exotic cultural heritage. Tonye, a National Geographic adventure photographer from America discovers Oma, the beautiful virgin maiden of Agaja village on Bonny Island who wants more than a village life. And Tonye's exhibition of her exotic beauty makes the cover of the Vogue America magazine. Tonye helps Oma to escape from rape and ruthless militants. She survives a pipeline explosion that killed her closest friend Uli and other villagers. And in spite of her trauma, she gains admission into the University of Port Harcourt.

She becomes an international supermodel.

Original Story by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, one of the most notable writers on Nollywood and the screenplay is coauthored with Dr. Christian Chika Onu, the multiple awards winning Nollywood producer at the University of Port Harcourt, the alma mater of many Nollywood stars.

I spent four years on Bonny Island for the research and recce.

"Naked Beauty" screenplay by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima and Dr. Chika Christian Onu (Living in Bondage 2, Glamour Girls, Karashika, Peacemaker) is the first Nigerian screenplay published for commercial distribution.

"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 in 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.

Read the treatment on http://nakedbeautyfilm.blogspot.com/2006/08/making-of-naked-beauty.html

Order the screenplay in paperback or hardcover copies on https://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-chima-ekenyerengozi-and-christian-chika-onu/naked-beauty/hardcover/product-14m9e92r.html

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#bodypainting
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