{"id":273980,"date":"2011-01-14T16:12:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=47393"},"modified":"2011-01-14T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T16:12:24","slug":"lancelot-oduwa-imasuen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/14\/lancelot-oduwa-imasuen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nLancelot Oduwa Imasuen\u2019s success in the movie industry did not come by accident. And he would gladly tell you that. He believes strongly in the maxim; experience is the best teacher. And his experience, acquired over several years of sustained practice in the performing arts, has served him very well. He is a very busy man in the movie industry, where he spends days, weeks and often times, months, producing movies. For his efforts, he sobriquet himself, \u201cThe Governor\u201d.
\nBut how did it all begin? \u201cI started acting when I was nine years old and acted in several productions throughout my secondary school\u201d, he revealed. Not one that gives in to double speaking, left secondary school, he was already a house hold name. That was in the old Bendel State. He featured prominently and regularly in some of the best television and radio programmes in the then Bendel State. \u201cI acted in The Variety Show and Youth Scene, produced by the then Bendel Broadcasting Service (B.B.S.)\u201d, he said.
\nHaving begun as a kid actor, it did not take long for him to discover his talent. He joined the Earth Pot Culture, a theatre troupe based in Benin, which according to him was the most professional troupe in then Bendel State. \u201cI was in form two in Eghosa Grammar School, Benin when I joined the Earth Pot Culture. This was in 1984. Ossa Earlice was my director in the troupe\u201d, he said.
\nIn 1992, he left the Earth Pot Culture, on a mission to Port-Harcourt, from where he studied and obtained the Professional Certificate in Theatre Arts.
\nBut it was in Lagos that the break- through began for him. Lancelot was with the Nigerian Television Authority (N.T.A.) headquarters, briefly, as a contract staff attached to Memorial Hospital and Twist Away, both television programmes. \u201d I was also a contract staff with the Federal Radio Cooperation of Nigeria (F.R.C.N.). I was presenting I Throway Salute\u201d, he said.
\nHe left F.R.C.N. and N.T.A. in 1996 and went abroad, visiting Moscow, Malta, Sweden, and Denmark with other artists. \u201cWe went on tour abroad, with \u2018Obaseki directed by Don Pedro Obaseki, sponsored by the Danish government and Shell of Denmark\u201d, he added.
\nAnd did that brought much money to him? \u201cIt was a very successful experience artistically even though it was not financially rewarding\u201d. We returned to the country in 1996\u2033. He added.
\nRelating his experience in the home movie sector on how he launched himself into an industry that has brought him fame and perhaps fortune, the 5ft, 11 inches tall, chubby cheeked movie producer and director said: \u201cfrom my experiences which I gathered from N.T.A, F.R.C.N. and Bendel Broadcasting Service (B.B.S.), it was very easy for me breaking into the movie industry, and coupled with my professional training as an actor.\u201d
\nHe directed his first movie in 1995 titled Twisted fate. And several others followed: Chaise, Apple, Ordained, Bond, Anointed, Aziba, Burden, and Issakabaa, which according to him, was the highest selling movie last year. He also directed the Harbinger-nominee Best Director, Reel Award 2000. He produced and directed Yesterday. But what inspired him to the theatre? \u201cThere is no single person that I would say, inspired me.\u201d He asserted adding quite emphatically\u201d \u201d I think God inspired me. Because from Childhood, I knew my line and l have never derailed\u201d.
\nLancelot seems to possess a magic wand for human management and inter-personal relations. Many who have worked with him agreed that he is very hardworking, humble and disciplined artist, whether as a producer or a director. Even as an actor, he takes his job seriously. But is there any secret behind his seeming success even in the area of organization human and perhaps, resources?
\n\u201d As I said, I think God inspired me. Also, I discovered that I have organisational skill and motivational prowess\u201d.
\nOn his experience with Nigerian artists, he said: \u201csome of them are very professional while quite a number still see it as a child\u2019s play\u201d.
\nImasuen believes that there that the movie industry has come to stay but that there is no direction, because of lack of sincerity. A lot of people wants to be the only cocks that should be crowing forgetting the dynamism of life. This has kept the industry stagnant. There is a whole lot of retrogression in the sense that instead of going forward, selfishness doesn\u2019t allow us to move forward. Everybody want to be heard at the same time\u201d.
\n\u201cI think these have prevented government from participating. Because a house divided against itself cannot stand\u201d.
\nOn what he thinks should be done to move the industry forward, against the background of its stunted progress, he said \u201cWe have to get more professional in our trade. People must be ready to accept constructive criticism\u201d.
\nAlso, Lancelot, a founding member of the Directors Guild of Nigerian (D.G.N.) said that the claim about directors sleeping with girls before given them roles, is blackmail.
\nDoes he have any regret being in the industry? No regret at all. This is my life. Art is my life. So how old are you? You ask him: \u201cI am in my early thirties, he said, not willing to give his exact age\u201d.
\nEmail address: Oduwaguv@yahoo.com, lance@lancelotimasuen.com
\nMovies Directed: Behind Closed Doors, Games Women Play, Games Men Play,\u00a0 Traumatized, Men Do Cry, Emotional Crack, Master Stroke, Official Romance, Issakaba, Django, Family Battle, The Mistress, Ekaete, The Pope Must Hear This, Private Sin and More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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