The stage is set for the world premiere of the film, ‘Oloibiri’, an action thriller named after the Niger Delta town with an eponymous name.
The film which mirrors the fear, dread, international exploitation, governmental
responsibility and the unseen benefits of desperate hope will premiere across Nigeria and international cinemas from May 2015.
The movie, features top Nollywood actors and actresses like Olu Jacobs, Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD), Taiwo Ajayi Lycette, Ivie Okujaye amongst others, is also scheduled to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival; one of the biggest film festival in the world on the 19th, 21st and 22nd of May, 2015.
Based on the Nigeria’s Niger Delta town Oloibiri which is credited as the country’s first point if crude-oil discovery in January 1956, the movie, ‘Oloibiri’ speaks on many central themes such as government pacification of a long-abused people. It addresses the theme through three subject-matters: the tragic journey of Oloibiri into developmental retrogression, the socio-cultural under-runs which birth militancy, and the governmental intervention to compensate a land which arguably, has been reaped of its resources.
Two decades after the last drops of commercial quantity crude oil was drilled from Oloibiri, the town has two of its sons, Timipre and Gunpowder; each one disenchanted with the exploision
