Ex PMAN president, movie maker and arts impresario, Femi
Lasode, is back with a bang! As you read this story, he’s on location in Lekki,
Lagos, shooting his next movie entitled Stolen Treasures.
“This is a project that’s very close to my heart. I’ve been
dreaming of this project forever. Stolen Treasures is all about creating
awareness about Nigeria’s stolen artifacts abroad. We need to highlight the
issue of the need to recover our artifacts. I am not the first to do it though;
Chief Eddie Ugboma did it in his movie, The Mask. We want people to be aware
that this is a very important issue. All our artifacts are in Paris and other
museums around the world; what we are doing is creating awareness about our
African heritage and the need to retrieve these artifacts,” an excited Lasode
told The Entertainer.
Written by Lasode, Stolen Treasures is an adventure story
about a Briton who stumbles on the map of a treasure throve buried somewhere in
Nigeria. Charmed by the lucre that lay waiting for him if he could locate the
treasure, he embarks on a journey to Africa that takes him to Nigeria and then
a tale of romance, betrayal and breath taking adventure begins to unfold as the
characters are engaged in a race against time to lay their hands on the treasure.
The cast includes Prisca Iwuoha, Belinda Effah, Angel Ufuoma, Clarion Chukwura AMAA award
winner, Gbenga Richards, veterans, Chief Eddie Ugboma and Larry Williams, Wale
Adebayo, Afro beat singer Alariwo, Jide
Kosoko, Seyi Allen, Phillippe and Meanwhile, Lasode also opened on his film
village: “We’ve been hearing about film villages all over but we haven’t seen
anything. Primarily the film shoot is to promote my film village because we
believe the film village should be self sufficient. We are using this as a test
run. We are in partnership with Best Resort Hotels and were building a film
village at Majekodunmi Farms. We are building from scratch and that’s the
reason you see so much equipment around. Everything here is going to be used
for the film village.”
On why he chose to write such a script, Lasode continued: “I
love adventurous stories. I grew up on them. Indiana Jones was one of my
favourites; I haven’t seen anything like that in Nigeria; something that even
kids would enjoy.”
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