This document provides information about Vickezo Productions Company, including its mission to promote young African talents through theater, TV, and film. It lists some of the company's past projects in these areas from 2000-present. It then provides a synopsis and opening teaser section for a proposed film titled "Echi-Di-Ime" about a young girl in a futuristic African village who is tormented by an evil god. Finally, it includes the proposed budget of $45 million for the film and notes that foreign or special expertise may be required.
2. VICKEZO PRODUCTIONS COMPANY
BRIEF PROFILE
Vickezo Productions Company promotes young African talents, using the
medium of theatre, TV and Films as a major instrument for societal
development.
The organization is legally registered and also a recognized production outfit
by the following National and International bodies: Corporate Affairs
Commission; Screen Writers Guilds of Nigeria, Dance Guild of Nigeria,
Actors Guild of Nigeria, National Associational of Nigerian Theatre
Practitioners (NANTAP-Lagos), Council of International Dance (CID-
UNESCO) amongst others.
During the over Ten years of this organizations' existence, we have been
able to lend our professional expertise in the under listed projects:
Maltina Launch =Year 2000 (Theater)
“Nsibidi” Production =2002 (MUSON FESTIVAL) (Theatre)
Youth-Forum Extravaganza (TV Production)
Detective Buma Series (TV Production)
NCAC Artistes’ Village Show-case (Festival)
‘Godless Woman” (TV Drama)
“Mouth to Mouth” (Film Production)
“Across the Bar” (Film Production)
“The Last Army” (Film Production)
Just to mention a few
3. “ECHI-DI-IME”
(Tomorrow is Pregnant)
THEME:
An exposition on what should be the perfect
image of the world as well as a drive to quicken
the quest for an African technological and
scientific renaissance before the year 2020.
TAG LINE:
Okwuchukwu, a girl of four years old, terribly
tormented by an Evil god in an ultramodern world,
pensively reminiscence into a Stone Age world to
unravel the mystery behind her turmoil and the
menace of the Evil god to extinct an African
vision of a Perfect World.
4. SYNOPSIS
In her passion to change their Stone-Age-World into an ultramodern and
Perfect World, Princess Erelu falls in love with Oloruntoba, a very wretched
Cave Boy.
Feeling terribly insulted and their royal position threatened by the young
lovers, Emperor Orunmuwa and Empress Erubawon supported by the Council
of World Witches declares war on their only daughter and her man.
Faced with these two mountains of problems, the lovers embark on a
dangerous journey to unravel the mystery and secret to an African ultramodern
world.
Unfortunately the secret, which they seek, can only be found in the bosoms of
their pursuing enemies.
Dreadfully chocked at a crossroad they make a vow to Esu, god of the cross
road who helped them to fight the battle based on an open-ended promise.
The mystery was uncovered. The battle was won.
An African vision of an ultramodern world was built.
They gave birth to the only child that Olodumare had granted them. The child,
Okwuchukwu turned out to be a mystery white child with golden eyes, wild
flaming hairs and always with a mysterious black Tin Drum. However, as they
settle down to the fruit of their labor, Esu demands for Okwuchukwu, as a pay
back. They refused.
Terribly angered by their refusal and Okwuchukwu’s peculiar nature, coupled
with her stubborn reminiscence, Esu declares war on their ultramodern world
and the rest is a chaotic history.
5. OPENING TEASER SLOW FADE IN:
1:
EXT/INT: ULTRAMODERN AFRICAN VILLAGE SQUARE. NIGHT.
We see an ornamented, crystal-like Leave, flying and slowly circling down like a jet, but with an
echoing sound of a lip whistling. Camera zooms in closer.
We see OKWUCHUKWU, a four years old innocent little white girl, with golden eyes and wild flaming
hair.
She relaxes comfortably inside the Jet-leave with a very small black Tin Drum under her armpit, while
eating, drinking and listening to a Cricket like music accompanied by a sonorously wailing African
flute and chant.
She looks around from time to time at her exquisitely furnished and heavily computerized Jet-Leave
as it circles down through glistering skyscrapers of various shapes and sizes.
The shimmering skyscrapers are made of pyramids of either fire, rain, whirlwind, blood, native-chalk,
synthetic cotton wool, ice or light but glamorously and fully adorned with synthesized African cowries,
beads, caved images and feathers.
Equally flying to and fro are other objects with various shapes, sizes and designs, but either looks like
a leave, groundnut shell, local melon shell, pestle, egg, coconut, sea shell or a short local broom, but
all fully embroidered and beautified with gold, diamonds, and other precious African stones.
Okwuchukwu in her elated mood either smile or simply wave at the flying objects as she circles into
an unconventional African village square, which is made up of some eccentric buildings as described
above, but surrounds a small roundabout that has a sacred temple belonging to Ogun, the god of
war. Close to the temple are some animals moving and playing around.
As Okwuchukwu’s Jet-Leave lands beside the temple, she dissolves out with her Tin Drum, like a
whirlwind and stands besides it, smiling and looking at the dance movements going on inside the
temple.
The temple is built of a caved metal, but glistering triangular, pyramid-like hut. It is a transparent red
colored, metal temple. Six wild looking spirit warriors dressed in transparent red wool metal, suddenly
appear in the temple doing a contemporary dance that expresses the vibrant, spiritual, war attitude of
OGUN and accompanied by a very slow classical metallic sound and a praise chant.
6. Opening Teaser Continues
Suddenly, the floor of the red metal pyramid splits open and a vibrant giant, Ogun,
rises with a wild heavy smoke. Ogun’s dressing is made of all kinds of strange
weapons, but very shinny and red with a hair of delicate metallic dread locks
OKWUCHUKWU
(EXULTANTLY)
Ogun laka aiye osi mo le!
(Greetings, Ogun, god of war!)
The metallic music and chant echoes and rises to a crescendo as if replying the
greeting and falls. As Okwuchukwu smiles, two strange very black figures with wild
teeth, hunchback and palm oil red eyes suddenly appear and her smile disappears
into a fright and a shock. The two creatures are dressed in an ornamented palm
fronds with very dark but shinny skin and holding two dangerous canes made of
flaming palm fronds. They suddenly seize her.
ESU’S ACOLYTES
(WITH VENOM)
Acolytes of Esu, we are.
At the master’s temple, you must report…
OKWUCHUKWU
(STRUGGLING)
What…? Let’s go off me, you evil…!
7. PROPOSED BUDGET
PRE-PRODUCTION $12.
500,000
PRODUCTION $17. 700,000
POST PRODUCTION $13. 300,000
OVER-HEAD $1. 500,000
GRAND TOTAL
$45.000,
000
FOURTY-FIVE MILLION DOLARS
8. ALIST
Steve James- National President = Dance Guild of Nigeria
Tony Anih- National President = Screen Writers’ Guild of Nigeria
Ejike Asuegbu – National President =Actors’ Guild of
Nigeria
Bond Emeruwa – National President =Directors’ Guild of
Nigeria
Iyen Agbornifo- National President =Creative Designers Guild
Individual Celebrity Players
Rechard Mofe-Damijo
Ernest Obi
Mack Baylis
Ejike Asuegbu
Kanayo O. Kanayo
Franca Brown
John Okafor
Steph-Nora Okere
Mary Remy
Ejiro Okurame
PLEASE NOTE:
Due to the strangeness and requirement of this work, this production may not be fully
realized without necessary foreign and or special experts’ inputs. Therefore, the above
Budget is very subject to change.
For enquiries, please contact: Vickezo Productions Company
www.vickezo.net.istemp.com
vickezo@yahoo.com