The occasion which held on the Mike Adenuga Centre first had a screening adopted by an interactive session hosted by Amara Iwuala.
Talking on the quick movie, director Udoka Oyeka revealed the concept of the story was impressed by quite a few stories of OAPs demanding payola to advertise music by upcoming artistes.
“I used to be speaking with Forte basis who additionally sponsored this movie they usually instructed me they wished to do one thing cultural. So something that might spotlight the music trade in Nigeria and at the moment there was plenty of discuss payola and the way exhausting it’s for upcoming artistes to… So if you do not have cash, you’ll be able to’t actually make it in any respect within the music enterprise”, Oyeka stated.
The filmmaker additionally shared why he casted Brymo for the lead function within the quick movie revealing the artiste first crossed his thoughts as a result of that they had initially labored on a venture collectively in 2014.
“So I had labored with Brymo beforehand on a special venture however he simply made an authentic soundtrack for my film ‘No Good Flip’ and through that venture, we shot a music video for the track. At that time limit, this was 2014, I instructed Brymo that we have to do one thing collectively in movie however I did not have any venture on the time. I knew that if I had the fitting story for him, I would attain out to him”.
On getting ready for his debut movie function, Brymo revealed he had a bit of expertise from taking pictures his music movies to adopting completely different personalities in his albums.
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“From ‘No Good Flip’ to creating music movies to shifting shapes from one persona to a different on each completely different album. So I really feel prefer it’s been within the works. However asides from that, Udoka prepped me so I suppose I’m a quick learner”.
‘Worth of Admission’ follows the story of Kola, an upcoming artiste who’s torn between spending his financial savings on payola to get his single promoted or paying for his sister’s training. It stars Brymo, Bucci Franklin, Folu Storms, Femi Department, Brutus Richard, Udoka Oyeka, Shawn Faqua, Shalewa Ashafa and Kolade Shashi.
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