Aki & Pawpaw mourn Kasvid, reveals how the late Nollywood filmmaker discovered them!

Nollywood actors and playmakers gathered for the candlelight/tribute night of late filmaker Chukwuka Emelionwu, popularly known as Kasvid.

At the candlenight actor Osita Iheme popularly known Pawpaw, revealed that; "Kasvid was my boss who later became my friend. I met him in 2002, in Eungu. Then I was based in Aba, where I was horning my acting skills. I decided to relocate to Enugu to hustle. While in Enugu, Kasvid was shooting a film. When he sighted me, he developed  interest in me. He just  believed in me immediately he sighted me."

He further said that; "Kasvid asked me if I would like to go into acting. I told him, I have been into actng way back in Aba. He then asked me again, do you know Chinedu Ikedieze who featured in the "Last Burial.”I answered him in the affirmative. Then I didn’t know he was the producer of the Last Burial. Later, he invited a writer to write a script around Chinedu and I. That was how the movie, “Aki na Ukwa” came about. 

Aki then said, that. “I went for an audition, and he saw one-smart looking small boy and he immediately developed interest in me. A week after that encounter, he visited me in my hostel on campus. Kasvid took a risk in us. He invested his  money in us.  He saw something in us that other producers did not see. He made us who we are today."




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