Movie productions is a demanding profession which is not as profit oriented as many think, especially the Christian movies. This and some other reasons are why some filmakers opt for other means of survival. In this exclusive interview with Gospel Film News, a movie director and president of Great Grace Drama Ministry, Olusola Duyilemi, said it is disheartening that Christian movie producers are not getting adequate support. He also spoke on where to get edifying movies from Great Grace Drama Ministry, call for support for Christian filmmakers, amongst others. Excerpt:
CAN WE MEET YOU?
WHAT DOES YOUR MINISTRY DO?
HOW MANY MOVIES HAVE YOU PRODUCED?
HOW CAN PEOPLE ACCESS YOUR MOVIES?
All our movies can be found on our YouTube channel Olusola Duyilemi Gospel TV. We enjoin people to go to this channel to see this movies and be blessed. As you watch kindly endeavour to subscribe to our channel, click on the notification button, like our videos, drop your comments and help share the link(s) with your contacts. Here is link to see all the movies:
https://youtube.com/c/2GTVnigeria
WHEN DID YOUR MINISTRY STARTED AND WHAT ARE THE ACHIEVEMENT SO FAR?
Great Grace Drama Ministry became a full fledge ministry in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between then and now, we have been privileged to minister in churches aside from producing movies. Also, two of our short movies; The Sacrifice and Contentious Wife featured at the first Mount Zion Institute Alumni International Fellowship (MZIAIF) International Christian Film Festival held in January 2021.
WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES YOU’VE ENCOUNTERED AS A FILMMAKER?
They are numerous but notable are finance and securing suitable location for production. Making quality movies require good money so having enough to meet our production budget is a huge task. Hiring quality equipment, paying crew and honouring casts aside from production cost at location as well as post-production stage. It is disheartening that we Christian producers are not getting enough support as expected. Many are afraid of releasing their houses for us as location. I therefore appeal to every child of God and churches to rally round Christian movie producers. I also appeal to Christians across the globe to watch more Christian contents. Virtually all gospel producers and production outfits host YouTube channels where they post godly contents. We need people to go online to watch these movies and be blessed. By so doing they are giving us massive support.
HOW WERE YOU ABLE TO OVERCOME THE CHALLENGES
Faithfulness of God has been consistent. He has surrounded us with men and women of God who have been lifting our hands even at short notice. Faithfulness in God is the key to overcoming all challenges.
YOUR ADVISE FOR FILMMAKERS IN NIGERIA
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