President, Muhammad Buhari has sent notices to filmmakers against advancing viciousness and sexual profanity in their motion pictures.
Buhari sent the message to the motion picture industry in a foreword, written in a handout titled "Nigerian Film Industry at a Glance".
The president asked film professionals to try to dependably extend the nation in a positive light.
The president said: "The Nigerian film industry that is presently called Nollywood, in the style of the American, Hollywood and Indian, Bollywood began as the exertion of a gathering of ambitious young fellows and ladies who exchanged on their abilities and sheer assurance without anybody focusing,"
"It has now transformed into a major industry utilizing a huge number of individuals, adding to the national Gross Domestic Product and engaging another era of inventive business visionaries,"
"Our administration will keep on supporting the innovative divisions of its economy in order to energize our abounding young people while we charge our movie producers to keep on projecting the picture of Nigeria and the mainland of Africa decidedly through their story lines. Movie producers ought not make movies for craftsmanship purpose. Movies ought to be practical and socially pertinent,"
"Producers, whether neighborhood or the individuals who come here to utilize our offices, should however be delicate to our societies and religions. They should not glamourise viciousness or sexual obscenity in every one of their structures. They should not advance prejudice or ethnic prevalence or trash any religion or society,"
"I need to see more movies that praise our differing qualities, movies that commend the accomplishments of our kin, movies that advance social reasons for right to training, movies that lets us know the malice of aggressive behavior at home against men and ladies, movies that rouse trust and confidence in our nation and humankind when all is said in done. I am sure that Nollywood would go from quality to quality."
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