England-based-Nigerian-born, movie actress cum producer, Bola Akande, the daughter of legendary theatre practitioner, Ishola Ogunsola AKA ‘Dr Isho Pepper’, stormed Nigeria few months ago for the shoot of her latest movie, ‘Broken’.
The Christian movie which parades actors like, Olumide…Morenike Akande, …..was filmed in Ibadan, Oyo state capital.
In a recent chat with Inside Nollywood, Ms Akande, who is also the Creative director of His Praise and Glory Media Ministry based in Manchester UK, revealed the challenges she faced shooting her movie in Nigeria and how top movie stars neglected her.
“Funding of Broken’s shoot in Nigeria was not easy at all. We shot the movie on RED camera; one of the top end cameras for digital filming. And it costs a lot of money to hire per day. We were supposed to get funding from someone but the money didn’t come. So, my husband and I had to raise the money for the project with the help of God and we had a lot of support from our cast and crew. Also because it was a self funded project, it took me more than a year to finish because we couldn’t pay for everything on time. So, a lot of things were DIY (do it yourself) but today here we are.
Again, because we are upcoming, it took more efforts for people to see our work and believe in us. Some actors that we approached didn’t take us seriously because they didn’t know us or the work we can do, also being a faith based message, they probably were not sure if people would see it,” she hinted.
Speaking more about the movie, Broken, the multi-talented movie producer assured that the project was inspired by God.
“It was a mission God ordained and it was wonderful. We dealt with incest; fathers defiling their daughters and ways to tackle such abominations.I have to be grateful to God and to my husband for pulling this through.”