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| DR EMMANUEL UDUAGHAN |
Nigeria's premier Movie awards, Best of Nollywood Awards would rock Asaba, the Delta State capital this year 2013. It would be one of the biggest gathering of the movers and shakers and shapers of Nollywood, which is second only after Bollywood in terms of production. We hear also that the Guinness Book of Records has certified the World's Longest Red Carpet event which the stars/ celebs etc would walk on at this year's event.
This year's edition is the 5th in the series and it would be at a 5000 seater dome. The confirmation of the event
venue is coming after months of discussions with top officials of the
Delta State Government.
According to the Governor of the
state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, while signing a Memorandum Of
Understanding to the effect on behalf of the State Government: "We are hosting
this event for a lot of reasons.
Nollywood and football come side by side in Nigeria when you
talk about what sells us to the world, with Nollywood gradually
overshadowing football, especially in African countries where our stars
are hero worshiped.
"To us in Delta State, it is important we
develop Nollywood, especially with the way filmmakers have gradually
turned our state to the Hollywood of Nigeria. It is on record that an
average of 300 films are shot yearly in Asaba because we have given the
producers the right environment and also because our state is quite safe
now after our heavy investment in our security operatives and security
equipments."
The Executive Producer of the Awards, Mr. Seun
Oloketuyi, had earlier disclosed that Asaba was chosen because it's not
just the heartbeat of the Nation, but that of Nollywood. Producers not
just love to shoot in Asaba, Oloketuyi said, the state is blessed with
talented scripts interpreters in the mould of the
legendary Richard Mofe Damijo, the late Enebeli Elebuwa, Fathia Balogun
and Rachael Oniga to mention just a few.
Oloketuyi added: "Apart
from the Awards, we will be setting a record for the longest Red Carpet
in the world, a dream we have had since 2010 but could not happen then
because of technical hitches. However, this time around, we are flying
Adjudicators from the Guinness Book of World Records from the United
Kingdom to ensure all goes well and the record is broken and so all that
will attend will walk on the carpet.
"Overall, it will be a
better Awards and Events managed by world class events managers and with
world class standards in mind. Already, the first stage of the Awards
has started with Nollywood filmmakers jostling to be part of the Awards
as they have begun to submit their movies for the Awards. The entries
for the Awards opened on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 and will close on Sunday, June 30, 2013.
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