Award-winning producer, Obi Emelonye whose heart-rendering latest flick, “Last Flight to Abuja”, is serenading the motion picture industry.
This movie has transformed the man into a social crusader as he canvasses for a better aviation safety in Nigeria and Africa at large.Screening the movie to a selected audience at Genesis Deluxe, Lekki, Lagos, last Tuesday, the emotion-laden producer/director decried the degenerating state of the nation’s aviation industry, stressing that the unveiling of the film , which collided with the recent Dana plane crash, remained an eye-opener that the nation’s aviation sector needs an urgent attention.
*ObiEmelonye, who explained why he embarked on the project which he claimed took him about five years to complete, said “I feel passionate about the issue of safety on Nigerian planes and decided, against the grain of opinion to make a film about it.”According to him, in the season of unveiling the film and with uncanny similarities with its narrative, history repeated itself. “The coincidence is unnerving but portends even more.” he stated.
Emelonye said “as we came to terms, along with the whole Africa, with this avoidable loss of precious lives, the first reaction of my team and I was to postpone the premiere and release of this film as a mark of respect to the victims and their families.’
“ However, after extensive consultation, which involved families of victims, we decided to continue with the premiere and dedicated the film to the memory of all those that lost their lives in the two incidents on 3rd of June, 2012. Whether we like it or not, this film has become involved;all of us here have become involved; in the inescapable but long-overdue clamour for better aviation safety in Africa.
”“Last Flight to Abuja” starring some of Africa’s biggest actors including Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Jim Iyke, Jide Kosoko, Ali Nuhu, Celine Loader and others is the very first Nollywood film set on a plane and is a high octane suspense thriller inspired by real life events that unravels the twists, turns and leaps of fate that put a set of everyday Nigerian travelers on-board a stricken plane teetering on the brink of disaster at 30,000 feet.
The film has inadvertently become relevant and timely due to the uncanny similarities to the recent Dana plane crash that happened in Lagos which resulted in the loss of over 160 lives.Emelonye belives that now is the time to release this all-important film as a way of mounting pressure on the relevant agencies to tackle the problem, especially, given the fact that the issue of safety in African aviation sector, has become a source of worry across the globe.
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