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| Emem Isong |
Popular producer and CEO of Royal Film
Academy, Emem Isong-Misodi, who’s known for churning out movies
that will get you glued to your TV screens from start to finish, is
surely redirecting her career.
She now wants to be producing such
movies that will not only be emotionally gripping, but also, such
that will bring about positive change in the society.
Emem revealed this, at the private
screening of her latest movie, Zahra’, which held penultimate
Sunday, at Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. Zahra is an advocacy
movie that relays the story of a 15 year old girl from the northern
part of the country who goes through the harrowing experience of
having her village attacked and her family killed by marauding
terrorists. She ends up in an IDP camp where she hopes to find refuge
to grieve the loss of her family and dreams.
Starring the likes of Kannywood’s
Sani Danja, Patience Ozokwor, Victor Olaotan, Shawn Faqua, Nicole
Ndigwe, Damilare Kuku, Funmi Eko Ezeh, Shawn Faqua, Segun Arinze and
Efe Irele, the movie left many in the audience speechless at the end
of the screening. In a chat with HVP, Emem said, “ this is a very
important message we wish to pass across especially at such a time
like this…with the rise in the numbers of refugees and internally
displaced people in the world.”
“For years now, I have been doing a
lot of entertaining movies, but this time, in my career, I want to
be making movies that will bring about change in the society. I
believe that movies are powerful medium to preach for change in the
society. It is high time we started using movies to advocate change
in our society,”
Emem added. According to her, there
are plans to première the movie in California and Abuja soon.
Produced in partnership with Rise Up’s Champions for Change, a
social advocacy group and funded by Ford Foundation, Zahra started
showing in in cinemas across the nation from yesterday.
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