It was like a galaxy of shimmering stars fell on Sunday, May 20th, when popular movie producer, Ovo Longe, premiered and launched her latest effort titled ‘Wings’.
The colourful event, which held at Clementine Hotels and Cinemas, Osapa, Lekki, Lagos was a classy affair with a lot of notables including the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Fola Adeyemi; his counterpart in the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, Engineer Olujimi Hotonu and others in attendance.
Speaking on the motivation for the movie, which is her 8th having been producing since 2004, Longe said that the movie is based on a true-life story, and the need to help people change their “He or she resides in America” mentality.
Her words: “We have a lot of our young people going abroad for their Masters programme or for employment. You find that a lot of relationships are disrupted because of that. That is what motivated this movie to help young people arrange their lives in a way that they don’t hurt other people with their moving from one place to another.”
On how she hopes the movie will do in the market, the producer said, “The movie is good. I want to enjoin people to come and watch the movie because you will be really amazed with what we have been able to do with this movie. It is a movie that the actors put a lot into. I believe in young talents, it is not that we don’t use the older ones, but I believe in young talents and that has been my mission, to bring a lot of young talents into the industry,” she said.
Longe, launched her career as a movie producer as far back as 2004, when she produced her first movie titled ‘Beyond The Waves’. She has since gone on to produces other movies such as ‘Chasing The Wind’, ‘Things Of Life’, ‘Life For Life’, ‘Sharp Arrows’, ‘Stepping Stone’ and ‘Tarry’.
Directed by Toyin Abiodun, the cast of the movie includes Ifeanyi Nwokoukwu, Tolu Odutayo among others.
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