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| Chico Ejiro |
Nollywood Veteran filmmaker, Chico Ejiro passes on Christmas day, 25th December, 2020. He was a Nigerian movie director, screenwriter, and producer.
According to some information in the public domain, Chico was born in Isoko, Delta State, Nigeria, and he originally studied agriculture, and was drawn into video production because Nigerians would not buy blank video cassettes.
His enormous body of work was typical of the second generation that started in the 1990s when cheap video-production equipment became available in the country. He owned a production company called Grand Touch Pictures, which is based in Lagos.
Nicknamed Mr. Prolific, he directed over 80 movies within a 5-year period—each one shot in as little as three days. They feature story lines relevant to Nigerians The exact number of movies he has worked on as either director, producer, or both is unknown, but it ranges in the hundreds as of 2007.
He was profiled in an article in The New York Times, dated May 26, 2002 (“When There's Too Much of a Not-Very-Good Thing” by Matt Steinglass), and in an article from the international version of Time Magazine dated May 26, 2002 (“Hollywood, Who Really Needs It?” by Stephan Faris).
The filmmaker died in the early hours of Christmas day from a seizure. Chico only just concluded directing his new movie on Christmas Eve.
Ejiro was married to Joy Ejiro and they had four children. He had two brothers: Zeb Ejiro, the best-known of the new Nigerian cinema auteurs outside of the country, and Peter Red Ejiro, also a movie producer.
Credit: Wikipedia
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