Filmmaker 'insults' Charles Novia for calling young filmmakers 'upstarts'

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April 4, 2016 11:42 AM

Chris Ihidero has described Charles Novia as an attention-seeking blogger with nothing but pedestrian opinions to offer. Check out Novia's response.

Ihidero has also been a newspaper columnist for 10 years, writing for The Guardian, NET and TNS.

Recently,

In the post titled "These Young filmmakers amongst us," Novia described the young fimmakers as "upstarts" and "Artistic infantilism," while likening their careers to "bubble gum."

Reacting to the post, described Charles Novia as an attention-seeking blogger with nothing but pedestrian opinions to offer.

Novia also responded to Ihidero's tweets, which he described as 'veiled insulting Tweets."

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Check out the tweets below;

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The Motion Picture Practitioners Council of Nigeria (MOPPICON) Billwas created over 10 years ago after a group of industry practitioners sat to draft it.

Recently, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the inauguration of a Ministerial Committee aimed at fast-tracking the passage into law of the MOPPICON Bill.

Following the announcement, most filmmakers took to Twitter and various social media to protest, creating the hastag #NoToMopicon.

Watch short film by Ihidero below.

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