Filmmaker and culture connoisseur, Bolanle Austen-Peters has revealed that her least expensive film was made with the sum of N90 million.
BAP, as she’s fondly called, made this known at the fifth edition of Peace Anyiam-Osigwe Nigeria Digital Content Regulation Conference, where she was a keynote speaker at the opening ceremony.
While sharing her experience in the film industry discussing the theme of the conference, ‘From Volume to Value: The Future of Nigerian Motion Picture Industry in the Digital Age,’BAP revealed that her least expensive film is her 2021 feature film, ‘Collision Course,’ which had a budget of N90 million.
Collision Course, later retitled as Collision, is a 2021 Nigerian drama film directed by Bolanle Austen-Peters. It was featured as the closing film for the 10th Africa International Film Festival, AFRIFF, in November 2021 and was the opening film for the Athen’s Nollywood Travel Film Festival in May 2022.
The film simultaneously tells the story of a police officer struggling to make ends meet and an up and coming artist, features Daniel Etim Effiong, Zainab Balogun, Chioma Chukwuka, Kelechi Udegbe, Nobert Young, and Bimbo Mauel amongst others.
