By Charles Mgbolu
A leading institute in ICT studies in the country; Digital Bridge recently held a stakeholders forum at the institute’s Lagos campus with Nigerian film makers and producers.

There, it was unanimously agreed that without the speedy input of ICT into the Nigerian industry film making business, the world will move along and leave the distraught film makers behind.

The forum whose theme was Enhancing the Nigerian Film Industry through ICT Education, Training and Enlightenment had seasoned ICT experts and resource persons from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Geogia giving talk after talk on the importance of having an ICT driven film business.

The Institute’s president, Prof Raymond Akwule, in his opening remarks explained that the forum was meant to fashion out ways ICT can aid the different aspects of film making and production process.

Michael Best, the first speaker told an alarmed house that Nigerian films weren’t enlisted in any of the worlds leading online film distribution companies. Michael said the system of using home video CDs as the basic form of distribution were hackneyed and will not do well for the Nigerian film business.