Emem Isong
After several years of planning, researching and fine-tuning arrangements, leading female producer in Nollywood, Emem Isong, has finally opened her long-awaited acting school. Known as Royal Arts Academy, the Surulere-Lagos-based institute, according to Isong, will seek to continually provide education through the arts.
It is also a training academy that offers courses on various aspects of the film industry with emphasis on script writing, acting, directing, dance and children theatre.
Other team members working with Isong, a theatre arts graduate from the University of Calabar, include: top actress, Monalisa Chinda, Uduak Oguamanam and Anietie Isong. Amazingly, the students of the academy, at the end of every season, will produce a movie/soap/series wholly written by them, as well as using students from their acting class, with the best directing students calling the shots.
At the end of the year, the overall winner would be given funds to produce a feature film that will be entered for international competitions. Among the Nollywood stars and filmmakers that graced the historic event are: Monalisa Chinda, Zik Zulu-Okafor, Chioma Chukwuka, Nse Ikpe-Etim, Uche Jombo, Paul Obazele, Famous Otakponmwen and a host of others.
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