NOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS CHARGED TO SHUN PRODUCTIONS THAT ERODE AFRICAN VALUE

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Nollywood producers and distributors in the Nigerian movie industry charged to eschew films and video works that erode values that define the African people.

Industry stakeholders made the call in separate interviews with NAN, on the sideline of a conference on Film and Video Classification and Censorship in Onitsha, Anambra State. The event, with the theme, “The Dynamics of Online Movie and Video Contents”, was organised by the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), from April 16 to 17, for filmmakers, distributors, investors, and artiste.

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According to the stakeholders, films that reinforce violence and moral decadence have a demeaning effect on age-long values and acceptable ways of life, which may escalate juvenile delinquency.

Mr Fidelis Duker, Chief Executive Officer of Nafifo Ventures, Organisers of Abuja International Film Festival (AIFF), said: “Everybody involved in making the film should ask if its contents reflect our culture and values as Africans. “We are all supposed to be self-regulators to uphold our value system and morals as Nigerians, and not to wait for the NFVCB to compel us before we do the right thing.

“At the point of conception when the scriptwriter has the idea, he should begin to imbibe values, and the director should do the same. “The language used in a film, act of violence and nudity, send messages out to people, especially children, who may apply them wrongly.

“We are Africans and we will remain a people with strong moral values which need to be sustained and transferred to the younger generation,”