Exclusive: Director also plans to shoot sequel to When Love Happens in London later this year.
Seyi Babatope is now shooting what he calls the first Nollywood family film, on location in Lagos, Nigeria.
The film, Lunchtime Heroes, is about a group of seven students who are bad at sports who have to take part in a skills challenge. Their teacher is a volunteer through the National Youth Service Corps who doesn’t fit in at the upper-class school.
“A family film has never been done before here,” Babatope told Screen on the set in Lagos. “I wanted to give African kids something to relate to, to uplift the spirit of the African child. It’s a film families can go see together.”
His cast of young unknowns has impressed him; some were scouted through local churches. “The kids are just so good.”
He added, “If an African kid can be Hannah Montana-ish we could be tapping...
Seyi Babatope is now shooting what he calls the first Nollywood family film, on location in Lagos, Nigeria.
The film, Lunchtime Heroes, is about a group of seven students who are bad at sports who have to take part in a skills challenge. Their teacher is a volunteer through the National Youth Service Corps who doesn’t fit in at the upper-class school.
“A family film has never been done before here,” Babatope told Screen on the set in Lagos. “I wanted to give African kids something to relate to, to uplift the spirit of the African child. It’s a film families can go see together.”
His cast of young unknowns has impressed him; some were scouted through local churches. “The kids are just so good.”
He added, “If an African kid can be Hannah Montana-ish we could be tapping...
- 3/18/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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