CULTURE, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT *Promoting the three Bottom lines*
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| What kind of Occupational disaster can arise from this |
What is occupational Safety and Hazards, with regard to the film industry?
First and foremost, let us understand the three concepts below, and in the context of the film industry:
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| Fire on set - disaster may occur |
The Film Industry, like any other industry in Nigeria, and indeed, all over the world, is faced with challenges.
In Nigeria, the film industry is facing challenges of different kinds and magnitude.
Challenges associated with occupational safety and hazards are among the challenges the Film Industry in Nigeria in grappling with.
More pictures from the Special Practical Sessions of the Practical Phase of the skills Acquisition training and empowerment programme conducted by the African Film Institute in Jos, Plateau state.
The Special Practical Phase of the training was designed to give the trainees direct access to a professional film set by way of active participation and involvement in the activities of a real film production.
The African Film Institute (AFI) is proving to be intentional, deliberate and committed in its efforts to lay a solid foundation in Film Making and Creative Media Production for the over 300 hundred trainee participants.
The trainees are taking part in a 6 months, skill acquisition and empowerment training that the institute is organising for them in the City of Jos, the capital of Plateau state, North Central Nigeria.
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| Special Practical Phase |
As the heading of this write-up is staring you in the face, it does clearly, more than explaining to you, dear esteemed reader and friend that this publication is a work started in the past, and therefore, a continuation of an earlier publication.
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| From the Special Practical Phase of the training |
A popular saying has it that "Beliefs are harder to shake than knowledge".
In this piece, my focus is to discuss this age long popular axiom, with regard to what is expected in reality from the participants of the ongoing skills acquisition training programme in Film Making and Creative Media Production that the African Film Institute is conducting in the serene and captivating City of Jos, the Plateau state capital, North Central Nigeria.
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| A lighting equipment used for the training |
Recently, Scoreline reported that the introductory training classes conducted for the commencement of lessons for more than 300 participants of the 6 months skills acquisition programme hosted in Jos, the Plateau state capital, has come to an end.
The introductory training classes that just ended, is part of the ongoing 6 months skills acquisition training in Film Making and Creative Media Production, designed by the African Film Institute (AFI).