Matthew Simpa, who, together with Sunday Ossai and the late Yemi Meshioye of then MESH Films, produced Jagunlabi in the late 1980s, one of the films that preceded what would later be known as Nollywood, is back to full-time film-making.
Simpa, who spoke exclusively to TheNiche, said he had just wrapped the initial shoot on the movie project he conceived many years back. He explained further that the cast and crew will return to location early May.
Jangulabi was made on ‘reversal film’, a cheaper celluloid template to cut costs, inadvertently opening the door to the even cheaper alternative of video widely embraced by Nollywood today.
Simpa’s new project, a home video titled One Long Night, stars Yeni Ejide Davies, whose acting credit includes the television soap, Tinsel, among many others.
“It is a domestic drama about marriage and revolves round a couple’s challenges and triumphs,” Simpa said, adding that his focus in the next couple of years will be on martial issues.
