For Chineze Anyaene (pictured above left),
the director and producer of the highest grossing Nollywood movie of
all time at the cinema, IJE, it is time to record another milestone as
the movie hits the DVD market from Monday, December 3, 2012.
IJE
showed for several weeks at the cinema in year 2010 and made well over
N70m on that platform and was only beaten by the Hollywood flick,
Avengers (in 2012), it was not surprising when the much talked about
movie out- sold highly rated Hollywood flicks, Avatar, Salt, Spiderman
and others.
The
movie features unarguably two of the biggest Nollywood stars in this
clime, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Genevieve Nnaji among others. One
unique feature about IJE and its producer, Chineze Anyaene is that the
movie was her final year thesis at the famous filmmaking school, New
York Film Academy where she obtained her Masters’ degree in filmmaking and
became the first student in the history of the program to shoot a
feature film as her thesis while in school and the first student in the
history of KODAK to shoot a feature film on 35mm.
Synopsis:
IJE tells a tale of Chioma, a child growing up in the Nigerian
countryside who warned her restless sister, Anya about the trappings of
the American Dream. Now ten years later, Anya is accused of killing
three men in a Hollywood Hills mansion- one of them her record
producer-husband. Chioma travels from Nigeria to Los Angeles, and with
the help of a young, unproven attorney, discovers that the dark secret
her sister wants to keep hidden might be the only thing that can win her
freedom.
Here is the Youtube link for the movie; IJE http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=voVFuEMtaBA&feature=fvsr
fans can also follow the movie on micro-blogging site, Twitter @IJETheJourney or @bigsammedia for more info
