TIPTOPSTARS

As the film industry in Cameroon continues to grow from lips and bound, the country also needs to start paying tribute to those who make the engine steam. These are production houses and individuals whose efforts have generally boosted the sector and now attracting widespread attention. One of such companies is Trend International Production with its assiduous CEO, Terence Fomunung. Through them, Cameroon will be a movie richer again. Come April 2012, Trend International Production will release Vanity Chase, movie shot in Yaounde a couple of months ago. “Post-production is complete,” the movie’s producer announced. According to Fomunung who is based in the UK, the movie will be launched throughout Cameroon.
Directed by Terence Fomunung, Vanity Chase seeks to decry the irrational want for material and financial wealth at the expense of moral rectitude. The movie stars renowned English-speaking Cameroonian actors including Fomunung himself, Njoya Grace, Ngeh Gerald and USA-based Mairo Sanda.

The blurb

Vanity Chase depicts the quest for material pleasures. Stacey (Mairo Sanda) learns the lesson the ugly way. By the time she realizes herself, she is heading to jail. Though comfortably married to Fidel (Terence Fomunung) and blessed with a kid, her quest for more wealth lures her into dating Roland (Ndikum Ivo) to whom she hides the fact that she is married. Her uncontrollable love for Roland makes her neglect her family responsibilities. Advice from her bosom friend Kate (Irene Nange) falls on deaf ears and she makes it worst by plotting to kill her husband. Her husband escapes death but his friend Ernest (Ngeh Gerald) who scents danger deploys a game to find out who is behind the plot. Keeping Fidel away, and with the assistance from Fidel’s mother (Njoya Grace), Stacey is convinced that Fidel is dead. Investigations go on while Stacey is ridiculed as she discovers that Roland isn’t after all the messiah she thought he was. But at this point it’s too late to confess her sins as investigations are closed on exposing her. Worst, on her way to jail, she discovers that Fidel didn’t die after all.
The rest of the story is told in the captivating movie piece coming after The Brothers shot in London and released last year. Earlier in 2006, Trend International Production produced Berlin Icon, shot in Germany and premiered at the Yaounde Conference Centre.