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Bola Agbaje takes Snapchat social movie-making to Nigeria
Following on from the success of Snapped the Movie (www.snappedthemovie.com), the UK’s first Snapchat movie, 2Far Media are continuing their commitment to creating a series of ‘social movies’ (a new term for short social media films that it has coined) by pioneering a collaborative project to create a Snapchat movie with a distinctly Nigerian flavour. […]
Following on from the success of Snapped the Movie (www.snappedthemovie.com), the UK’s first Snapchat movie, 2Far Media are continuing their commitment to creating a series of ‘social movies’ (a new term for short social media films that it has coined) by pioneering a collaborative project to create a Snapchat movie with a distinctly Nigerian flavour.
Written by Olivier award-winner Bola Agbaje, partnering with Nigerian director Kewa Obi, Snapped Nigeria has used a highly collaborative process of workshops and online social media meet-ups between the two countries. The movie was produced by award-winning Nigerian actor/producer Lala Akindoju and, after shooting in Lagos was completed during February, is currently going through its final editing and post- production process in London by Tom Moutchi, who was the director of the original Snapped the Movie.
An early pre-release cut of Snapped Nigeria had a successful preview with a audience of online professionals during a Social Media Week Lagos interactive session on February 26th.
Snapped Nigeria is scheduled to launch on Snapchat at the end of March 2016 on 2Far Media’s socialmovies Snapchat account
Snapped Nigeria is being produced in close association with the British Council as part of their UK/NG 2015-16 programme.
Bola comments, “Spielberg learned how to make movies by using Super 8. The new generation’s Super 8 is a smartphone and this generation’s young Spielberg is somewhere in the world with a phone in their hand waiting to be inspired. When Tom Moutchi and I worked on Snapped the Movie in the UK we said we would love to take the concept global.
Being of Nigerian descent I love telling stories from that perspective. It has been great working with Lala and the Nigerian team remotely and wirelessly because we are showing the world not only can it be done, but we are doing it right now.”
Producer Lala Akindoju adds, “It’s super exciting to be a part of the team producing Nigeria’s first Snapchat film.The challenges experienced whilst making the film have helped me grow and I can’t wait for everyone to see it.”
