LIVING LEGEND - Lancelot O. Imasuen; Nollywood film Producer and Director AWARD

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Lancelot O. Imasuen; Nollywood film Producer and Director

 

"Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen is the CEO of Lancelot Imasuen Media Network Ltd, a frontline entertainment and commercial production company with headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria and a branch in Benin City. He is also the President of Nollywood Project 101, a Platform to discover, nurture and expose new faces into the Nigerian motion picture industry.

Born July 21, 1971. Benin City, Edo state, Nigeria
Occupation Director, Producer, Screenwriter Years active 1999 - present Spouse Aimua Lancelot Imasuen

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen is a Nigerian film director, screenwriter and film producer best known as one of the founding figures of Nollywood Cinema.
In 2008 a Canadian documentary Nollywood Babylon co-directed by Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal, and produced by AM Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada in association with the Documentary Channel followed Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen while he was shooting his 157th film Bent Arrows.
The documentary played in the Official Competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. Bent Arrows was released into the Nigerian home market in 2010.
His films feature unexplored aspects of the African experience including tribalism, witchcraft, crime, poverty, religion, and folk beliefs.
Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen has worked in the film industry since 1999 mainly as a film director and producer. He currently lives in Lagos.
Imasuen has plans to commence filming an epic movie titled Nogbaisi Ovonramwen in 2013. It will be about the last Oba of Benin.

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen shoots all his movies in Benin City, Edo State, with emphasis on his people, their history and projecting their rich cultural heritage. The acclaimed 40 year old prolific Producer and Director in Nigeria's Nollywood film industry has made more than 200 movies. He was the lead star in the Canadian documentary film Nollywood Babylon. "

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