Why not a unified film industry

Developed countries whose footsteps we follow to progress did not developed through selfishness and egocentrism. They are role models in perseverance and patience. On the contrary, we are eager for quick money and seldom make sacrifices for our collective growth. America, India and other notable countries each have one premier film industries despite their differences […]

Developed countries whose footsteps we follow to progress did not developed through selfishness and egocentrism. They are role models in perseverance and patience. On the contrary, we are eager for quick money and seldom make sacrifices for our collective growth.

America, India and other notable countries each have one premier film industries despite their differences in religions and ethnicities, they remained united to champion the courses of their businesses and make sure all members are carried along and benefits respectively according to the rules and ethics of founding the films industries. While, in Nigeria the story is sour as Nigerians are divisive in nature and hardly endure to stand the pain of unity in diversity. It is believed that nothing comes easy but time is the best healer of all problems.

A good example of Nigerians divisiveness is the creation of different film industries to represent each regions and or states within a united Nigeria. This is a setting that only expose our character and behaviour to the other parts of the world.

Nigeria film industry can progress and achieved recognition when it unified all its members to one entity. Government will have given them more consideration in terms of their welfare, assistance and the freedom of their work. The international communities will have given them assistance if the film industries are tied up together. The blending of the industries to one entity will assist the other film makers to be familiar with their far away counterparts and the bilateral relations will enhance better understanding of the rudiments of film making and social development. Now all the film industries that we have in Nigeria are seeking their objectives differently which slowed the pace of their progress.

The separation of Nigerian film industries brings about underdevelopment and open ways for corruption and self-enrichment. Today, the film industries had taken a huge dimension where the members and the executives play politics for self-aggrandisement. Examples of this has been manifesting since when Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999 without order and laws guiding the principles of rules of engagements of film makers. Many had turned themselves to be beggars even in their films that supposed to be life setters for leaders and the masses.

The government can play crucial role in tightening the fragmented industries to one entity to restore sanity in the affairs of Nigerian film industries as the divisions bring about lawlessness, violation of laws and ethics of film acts according to culture and the constitution of Nigeria.

Film characters are still employed into acting without using the proper gauge of absorbing film characters which a lot of parents and clerics are crying out, because of improper management, many amateur barge into film production without membership and knowledge of the occupation and this happen because the focus of most of the film industries is money not the good pillars of film production that created them.

The government should look at its responsibilities of preserving the culture of the people and their progress and to unify our fragmented film industries for the purpose of unity and rectifying the anomalies in the industry while it will be good for the film makers to look at it as mandatory that to go together is better to go alone.

 

Auwal Ahmed Ibrahim, Kaduna.