National Film Corporation Urged To Foster Peace With Movies

As more rural communities come under attacks, the National Film Corporation (NFC), has been advised to produce movies that would foster unity and peaceful coexistence in the country.

Mr Reuben Ibibo, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, gave the advice on Saturday in Jos, at the closing ceremony of a five-day Special Film Training Workshop for youths from the six-geopolitical zones.

Ibibo said that policing the society was the business of all Nigerians irrespective of their chosen careers, and challenged those in the movie industry to produce movies that would emphasise the need for unity and peaceful coexistence.

He said that such films should emphasise the fact that Nigerians needed each other, pointing out that herdsmen, usually blamed for attacks on rural dwellers, needed the food produced by the farmers just as the farmers also needed milk, meat and manure from cow dung.

In his remarks, Dr. Chidia Maduekwe, NFC Managing Director, said that the corporation had resolved to sustain the tempo of training and retraining of all categories of practitioners in the motion picture industry.

Maduekwe said that such training would help practitioners to fit into emerging global trends occasioned by digital revolution, expanding markets and greater financial nets.

He said that NFC would develop domestic and foreign institutional linkages, collaborations and partnerships, adding that modern equipment were being acquired to boost human capacity for quality production.

Mr Terna Tyopev, spokesman of the Police Command in Plateau, who spoke on behalf of the trainees, appreciated the NFC for the opportunity, and called for more of such training outlets.

The u85 participants, which included Mr Sunday Adah, NAN’s photographer in Jos zone, produced a short film titled ‘Maigoro’.