TIPTOPSTARS

When organizers of the opener edition of the Nollywood and African Film Critics Awards declared last September that Cameroon was fast closing up with Ghana and Nigeria on movie production, they certainly were not paying lip service. They had carefully put their ears on the ground and noticed that the country was making great strides in the seventh art, both in quantity and in quality. Such a laudable progress in a sector as prestigious as film making is the result of relentless efforts put in by people who dare into production, known to be one of the most challenging ventures. In Cameroon, it is mostly young people who have pulled up their sleeves to play the game and give it a prestigious name.

One of such young persons is Limbe-based Quiniva Dinga, producer of an up-coming Cameroonian movie titled Caught Within. Those who peeped on location as the movie was being shot in Limbe and Buea say it’s going to be watchable piece. The movie which has been edited in the Mendong Yaounde studio of Penjo Entertainment Productions will be released and premiered in March 2012 in the seaside resort of Limbe.

According to the producer, Caught Within, just like Rome, was not done in a day. “It has taken us quite some time to put the package together simply because we wanted to have the best in terms of technical quality,” Quiniva told TIPTOPSTARS Editor on the line to Limbe. She went on: “Since it’s my maiden production, I wouldn’t want to compromise my young career as a film producer. Therefore, putting an attractive piece in the market is non-negotiable.”

Produced under the banner of Glorious Entertainment, Caught Within will be premiered in a VIP launch style at Limbe’s FINI Hotel. “We expect to give our guests a red-carpet treatment and also hoping to get popular X-Maleya group around to sing for the newborn,” the producer announced.

Written by Glorious Entertainment CEO Quiniva Dinga, Caught Within which is entirely sponsored by her condemns the fraudulent nature of many young people nowadays, wrongly motivated by the wanton nose for financial and material wealth without doing any genuine work. It is directed by Elvis Tanwie aka Deddadies with Peter Ndjodzeka alias Penjo as camera operator and Gandia Theodore as continuity artist. Featuring in the movie which will be circulated nationwide and abroad are Agbor Madeleine aka Mumy Meg, Jeff Jazzy, Nche Francis, Elyn Fesse Basil amongst others. These actors were beautifully made up by Bareh Mildred.