Multiple
award-winning script writer and revered film producer, Mr. Chidi Nwokeabia has
returned with another blockbuster.
After thrilling movie
buffs and Nollywood with internationally acclaimed works like: Champions of our
Time, Patriots and several others, Nwokeabia and his Macnuel Production-led
team are poised to wow, dazzle and entertain us with A Chance To Dance.
In a recent chat with
SHOWBIZPLUSng inside his Surulere, Lagos office, the cerebral filmmaker
disclosed that A Chance To Dance, is a completely different movie, which aim is
to change the poor and unwholesome attitude people, especially the elites have
about dance, dancers and dancing as a profession.
Nwokeabia, added that
he decided to embark on the project because dance is a noble profession and
there is dignity in dancing.
He further stated
that through dance, a society could evolve from bad to good.
He also called on
government, corporate bodies and parents to encourage dance and dancers, stressing
that it is one of the easiest means of arresting youths restiveness and the
increasing neighbourhood violence among youths.
Some of the leading Nollywood
and music stars expected to team up with Nwokeabia on the set of the big budget
film include: Chinedu Ikedieze (Aki), Osita Iheme (Pawpaw), Charles Inojie,
Timaya, Daddy Showkey and several others.
Nwokeabia, an MBA
holder from UNN, also called on both government and corporate bodies to take advantage
of the rich storyline of the nationalistic project and support its completion.
He maintained that
our troubled nation stands to gain a lot, if A Chance To Dance, which he also describes
as an advocacy film is supported by a way of proper funding by both public and
private sectors.
Meanwhile, a synopsis of the fascinating,
suspense-filled and enthralling movie made available to SHOWBIZPLUS by elated
Nwokeabia, gives a candid insight into the creative work, which shoot is
expected to commence soon.
“Picolo,
the leader of a gang of hoodlums who fights, maims and kills, suddenly
disappears from Mushin, a ghetto suburb in Lagos. Seven years later he
reappears in the same environment, a changed man- with a university degree- in
dancing and a new zeal to change an environment that has remained the same way
he left it where crime, drugs abuse and youth violence still reigned supreme.
He fortuitously meets Lydia, a British trained dance graduate and together they
organized a district-by-district dance talent-hunt competition which receives
oppositions from parents, local authorities, some hoodlums who have become
kingpins in different neighborhoods. Picolo and Lydi are not deterred by this
opposition but can they change the perception of not just the gullible youths
but the entire population of the entire state towards dance?
How
do they contend with a local government chairman whose only daughter has
suddenly caught the dance bug? How do they deal with a fanatical religious
leader whose belief is not in tandem with ‘worldly dance.’
How
do they deal with a defiant society that once detested careers in football,
acting, music, comedy and now dance?
A
Chance To Dance - compelling and intriguing.
Basically, we want to empower Nigerian youths through dance,” Nwokeabia hinted
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