NFC set to roll out training programmes in film production for 2018-2019 as training of 80 youths ends in Jos

The Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) has said it will soon roll out a robust film training programme schedule that will cover 2018 to the first quarter of 2019 in the first instance, intended to enhance capacity, and professional competence of filmmakers in the country. Dr. Chidia Maduekwe, the Corporation’s Managing Director revealed this at the certificate presentation and closing ceremony of the Special Film Training Workshop for eighty (80) youth entrepreneurs from the six geopolitical zones of the country, on Saturday March 17, 2018. Venue of the training workshop was the National Film Institute, Jos, Plateau State.

Dr. Maduekwe, reminded participants that the training workshop was designed to help participants appraise existing and new developments within the context of broad range of traditional filmmaking techniques and applications in film and television production. The training workshop, he further said, equally sought to address skills gap in the creative industry, especially in film and television production. NFC, he further re-emphasised was desirous to sustain the momentum of training and retraining, as well as capacity building, of youths and filmmakers in the various opportunities within film and television.

“We wish to assure all Nigerians, especially, practitioners, that NFC will expand the scope and spread of its training programmes. We have designated our zonal offices as centres of training and capacity building for film and its allied sectors”, the NFC boss said, and assured that the Corporation will pursue the development of domestic and foreign institutional linkages, collaborations and partnerships to deliver on its training and capacity building mandate.

Dr. Maduekwe called on State Governments, practitioners and other stakeholders, to embrace the Corporation’s training and capacity building programmes which are designed to incorporate a blended learning approach that combines personal experience, classroom tutorials and practical/hands on, and ultimately create jobs and wealth as a major objective.

Participants produced and presented a short film “Mai Goro” to the admiration of guests which included heads of relevant government agencies, filmmakers and film enthusiasts.