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Nigerians last year took to the streets to
demand an end to what demonstrators said was endemic police
brutality. But the ebullient protests, which had taken place in
cities across the nation of some 200 million, ended at a Lagos
toll gate in a hail of gunfire https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-protests-shooting-idUSKBN2752PK.
The movie, Collision Course, tells the story of a law
enforcement officer struggling to make ends meet and an aspiring
musician whose worlds collide.
The officer sets up a roadblock to demand bribes and meets the
frustrated young artist, whom he mistakenly shoots dead, setting
in motion a chain of events that leads to him being arrested.
Movie director Bolanle Austen-Peters said the film seeks to show
some of the underlying issues that forces someone to turn
against the very same people he swore to defend.
"I found out that every single person in the story had a back
story that we all needed to understand, and at the end of this
when you watch this movie you begin to understand that we are
all victims, we are all brutalized by the system that we live
in," she said.
The 75-minute movie was the closing film at the African
International Film Festival that ended on Saturday.
Better known as Nollywood, Nigeria's multibillion dollar
industry churns out movies and TV shows at a rate second only to
India's Bollywood on modest budgets and employs 1 million
people.
(Editing by MacDonald Dzirutwe and Alex Richardson)
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