Filmmaking in Nigeria is hard- Agatha Amata

Media entrepreneur and filmmaker, Agatha Amata says Filmmaking in Nigeria is hard. The revered media personality made this known while talking about her new movie, ‘Disguise’.

 

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Speaking in a chat with TheNewsGuru, she said: “Filmmaking in Nigeria is hard and getting funding is a major challenge. We want to do movies of international standards but the funding doesn’t match up with the project. For you to do such movies and achieve that, I see that a lot of funding has to go into

 

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When asked about the funding she got for her movie, she said: “The funding we got from Bank of Industry wasn’t enough, If I didn’t have the extra and a lot of good will, the movie ‘Disguise’ won’t come out the way it did.The government needs to give us an enabling environment and provide facilitation for us to be able to do our business.”

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