Eric Aghimien

Known for

Directing credits
			Role
2016	Slow Country	Movie	director	34
2013	A Mile from Home	Movie	director	31

Award won Role or nomination

Credits per year

Credits per year
	Directing	Producing
2013	1	0
2016	1	1

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Slow Country tells the story of Kome, a homeless teenage mother, who in a bid to cater and secure a good life for her son Peter sought refuge in the arms of a drug kingpin Tuvi. The kingpin ushers her into the world of…
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Every character in the movie was carefully built and the each of the cast member portrayed their characters well. We paid attention to details every step of the way; performance, choreography, visual effect, special…
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It wasn’t like anything serious because I wrote the first 20 pages in 2011. It was supposed to be my first movie, but realistically, it wasn’t possible to make the film with the kind of money I had then. So, I had to…
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Slow country is metaphorical, but it is not about Nigeria, so let me clear that. People think it’s about Nigeria because of the things we went through recently, but no, it’s not about Nigeria; it’s just the right name I…
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I’m very particular about characterisation in my stories and my scripts, so when I write characters, I write compelling characters; characters that are memorable. What I do is, when I write a story, everything I do is…
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Tope Tedella was phenomenal in the sense that, when I wanted to make A Mile From Home, I was ‘a nobody.’ But I just had a vision, and fortunately, I was able to sell the vision to them and they too had nothing to lose…
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