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Dealing With Disappointments

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:31+00:00May 25th, 2014|Crowdfunding, Film, Funding trip, Imagine This, Rant|0 Comments

Dear Blog, it's been months since my last confession. I was in the middle of my Lagos trip the last time I wrote a blog post. Not that I've been lazy, I've been busy doing things. And I have, truth be known, been a little lazy in updating my blog. However moving forward, I'm going to try for one post a week or month or something. So lots of hail Mary's and I do hope I am absolved of my non crime. :-) So what have I been busy doing you're asking yourselves? Well I've been trying to raise finance for my short and feature film as well as finish a collection of short stories. If you've been on the Podcasts page, there you will find some of the podcasts I've already released. Sadly I just uploaded the last one left in this series, usual story, I ran out of [...]

Day 4 in Lagos
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Day 4 in Lagos

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Day 4 in Lagos

By Sade|2013-12-06T01:35:53+00:00December 6th, 2013|Funding trip, Lagos, Thoughts|0 Comments

This morning I woke up earlyish to go to the Lagos short film festival which was billed to start at 9:30am, I was ready on time but unfortunately the driver had a pressing errand to run which means I got there at 10:30 instead. Now I rushed up the stairs thinking, OMG I'm late and I'm going to be walking in at the wrong moment. Like the time me and my best friend were late for a funeral and we arrived as they were bringing the coffin out of the church. Truly embarrassing moment and that was down to the M3 being closed. Anyway I digress and to cut a long story short, the whole thing didn't start until 12:37pm. I've been away too long and I'm still operating on Western Time. :-) It's day 4 of my trip and each morning I quail at the enormity of the task ahead, [...]

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Day 3 in Lagos

By Sade|2013-12-04T22:51:46+00:00December 4th, 2013|Film, Funding trip, Lagos, Thoughts|0 Comments

First day I wasn't up at the crack of dawn and managed to sleep till 8am for a change. A sort of productive day, kicking round ideas on the film industry in Nigeria and how I was going to make Imagine This an enticing prospect for investors to want to put their hands in their pockets. First problem I have is there are no available statistics to show ROI on films made in Nigeria, HOAYS, which could be used as a bench mark has not been released yet so those investors are yet to see any money coming in. Films like Phone Swap, or Last Flight to Abuja which are still fairly low budget but well made films have no readily available data to use for comparison. It would be interesting to find out how much film revenue is actually generated at the Nigerian box office. How many Nigerians actually go to [...]

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Day 2 in Lagos

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:31+00:00December 3rd, 2013|Film, Funding trip, Imagine This, Lagos|0 Comments

It's been day 2 and a little bit of headway has been made. I ventured off the Island and headed into the mainland to an important meeting which was arranged as I was on my way to another meeting in Gbagada. I did my first ever film pitch and it wasn't until I was halfway though that I actually realised I was trying to sell the idea to this guy. Which is when the panic set in and the levee's breached underneath my arms and all the tips and tricks I'd learnt in the past couple of months just went to pot. Despite my mumbling and fumbling with sentences, I was able to articulate my vision for the film and in the process, bag myself an Executive Producer (EP). Which means I've gone from being a team of me to a team of two. Yay. I've also set up a [...]