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| Description: Streets of Calabar is a comedy thriller written and produced by former CNN and BBC reporter, Charles Aniagolu. Streets of Calabar, which Charles also wrote and produced, is his first outing as a feature film director (though he has a masters degree in film production). But what a phenomenal debut! Charles's eye for a shot and ear for dialogue, drawn from many years in front of and behind the camera, along with his writing skills, ability to create fully fleshed characters and considerable post-production experience, are credited with giving the movie its strikingly original backdrop, darkly comic riff and tense, rollicking action-gangster-thriller portrait, which arguably have helped place Streets of Calabar at the pinnacle of the Nollywood movement. The movie features Rita Dominic,Wale Ojo, the renowned Keppy Ekpenyong and UK based actors Anthony Ofoegbu and Maynard Eziashi. The story centers around Chuks Oti, mixed-race 419 (advance fee fraud) scammer and illegal immigrant recently deported back to his home country Nigeria from London. Once there he manages to wangle his way out of a possible jail term and ends up in the holiday resort city, Calabar, living with his loyal, much younger British girlfriend Margaret, who insisted on travelling with him to Nigeria. Chuks takes on menial jobs to make ends meet, but life is difficult .When he runs into his old 419 mate, Mike, a Nigerian pleasure seeker who is full of wild energy and loves to take risks, the two down-on-their-luck friends, with no jobs and no prospects, soon find themselves back in the criminal world |
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