Nollywood actress and producer Ini Edo was overcome with emotion after her film Shanty Town received ten AMVCA nominations.
Ini Edo exclaimed with joy that while she anticipated receiving a nomination, she wasn’t prepared for it to arrive in such opulent fashion.
She gave a big thank you to the whole cast and crew for their help.
The audience that spread the Shanty gospel far and wide was appreciated by Ini Edo. She declared them to be the true MVPs.
“Shanty Town!!
10 Nominations!!!
Phew!!
Did I see nominations coming?? Yes…
I just didn’t know it will come in such a grand style…
Shout out to the entire cast and crew of one of the biggest moves out from Africa… SHANTY TOWN…
God is indeed faithful…
I appreciated my Tribe…
My unshakable crew…
My amazingly supportive cast members.
My unwavering Audience who took the gospel of the Shanty far and near…
You all are the real MVPs…Now the time has come to bring home the Shanty Awards…
Every nominated individual put in so much work to make Shanty Town the great Series we all saw… So make Shanty Town the great Series we all saw… So please fan, help the tribe of Shanty Town bring these awards Home…
Thank you for your support always…
And to my Co-Executive producers… We did This!! Literally….. Thank you all”.
My response to those who describe Shanty Town as ‘all nonsense, no lesson’ – Ini Edo
Ini Edo has disclosed what she tells people who describe popular movie Shanty Twon as ‘all nonsense and no lesson’.
Nigerian popular Netflix series Shanty Town has been trending for days after the movie premiered on Netflix a few days ago. While some people have praised the producers and cast for executing their roles perfectly, others have trashed the importance of the movie.
Ini Edo, a producer of the movie has disclosed how the script was written and some lessons to be picked from the movie. Revealing her inspiration for the script and movie, Ini Edo stated that she was inspired to tell Nollywood stories, Nigerian stories, in the way she thought they should be told.
Speaking about her response to people who described the movie as a movie without any lesson, Ini Edo stated;
“Why this script? Why this script is just that we realized that there is a need to tell this story.
It was something happening in society whereby nobody was talking about. About women, the slave trade, and the kind of businesses that go on behind the scenes. Prostitution is really big all over the world. But whereby people in authority are thriving off of this industry. One of the things that we needed to bring to light.
The fact that women had a lot to do with women, and with kids. And how much more they should be protected and what they are actually going through. And the fact that there is a part of this world that some of us don’t get to experience. But it is actually happening. So I needed people who are sitting up there who are probably unaware that some things like this are going on in our society to know that we need to fix it.”
