Emmanuel Thomas l Friday, October 15, 2021
LAGOS, Nigeria – Native Media , an award winning film production company and the Nigerian Railways Corporations, NRC have sealed an agreement for the production of ‘Conversations In Transit’, a film that will showcase achievement of the federal government in the transport sector, specifically rail.
Conversations in Transit is set on the 8am train from Lagos to Ibadan. Heiress Hajara, Event planner, Ini and Career Woman, Adeola must decide what the future holds for them. But will they continue to live as usual or change the course of destiny? This is left for you to fathom in this film. There are other side attractions in the creative work, which showcases the beauty of comuting in style and comfort through the railways.
Native Media has carved a niche for itself in the last 10 years and has left major imprints in works like the The Mystic River, Oloibiri, Voiceless, Hotel Majestic, The Johnsons, Hush, Zone 22, Child International, Taurarin, Zamani and Zero Hour among others.
Native Media tv is happy to celebrate the NRC in particular and the Federal Ministry of Transport. Speaking during the launch at the impressive Mobalaji Johnson Railways complex, Producer of the film, Rogers Ofime described Conversations In Transit as a love story he found very interest from his first encounter with the script.
“This is one beautiful story I thought to my self and I will like to tell so bad and tell it with the right people”, Ofime said. He is full of appreciation for the Managing Director of the NRC, and most especially, the Minister of Transport, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi. He believes that with a cast made up of RMD, Uzee Usman and Rahama Sadau among others, Nigerians are in for something magical, following a beautiful story crafted by Ummi Aisha Baba-Ahmed & Writers Ink Concept.
For Roberts Peters, who is Director, the sayings of Alfred Hitchcock that a great film is centred on the script finds fulfillment in Conversations In Transit.
“Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot.. but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot. It’s very rare – almost never that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay. Conversation in Transit screenplay is a solid foundation. “This is one movie I can’t wait to be part of”, he said, during the preproduction conference.
Speaking on the project, Managing Director of the Nigerian Railways Corporation, NRC, Engr Fidet Edentalen Okhiria said the mangement of NRC was extremely excited when told about the film, which he said will showcase the much that the federal government has done in the rail sector. The Managing Director, who spoke through Director of Operations, Mr. Niyi Ali mentioned the Lagos – Ibadan rail line, the Warri-Itape line and the Port Harcourt- Aba rail, among others as some of the railways project embarked upon by the federal government.
He said the NRC is on the verge of scaling up the trains and that the plan is to run16 trains per day. He urged Nigerians not to buy tickets from touts so as to discourage touts from infiltrating the service.
For now the NRC has a capacity to lift 600 passengers but that with time e-ticketing will ease the problem of security tickets in Lagos. Speaking in terms of high cost of fare, he said market research suggests that the fare is just right but that nothing is cast in stone and that there will be opportunities to review the fare as the NRC increases capacity to move commuters.#conversationsintransit
