Film & Television
African stories,
owned at the source.
Two divisions, one library. Narrative film developed as intellectual property, and unscripted formats built around the group's own work on the ground.
02 — Development · Production · IP
Film
Original African stories developed as ownable intellectual property, not as promotional content.
Film exists to build a library. The division develops, co-produces and finances narrative work rooted in Nigerian life — stories that would not survive being retold by someone outside them.
Output includes Mending, the Robert O. Peters drama released to Nigerian cinemas in June 2025, and Wazobia Bar, produced with Freddie George TV. The commercial logic is simple: own the underlying rights, and every window that opens afterwards belongs to the group.
In Release
Wazobia Bar
An ensemble comedy set where three Nigerias meet — produced in partnership with Freddie George TV.
Wazobia takes its name from the Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo words for “come” — the shorthand Nigerians use for the whole country in one room. The bar is the room.
It is the clearest statement of what the Film division is for: a story that could only be written from inside the culture, financed and structured so that the rights stay where the story came from.
In Release
Mending
A Robert O. Peters drama about the mistake a woman cannot outrun — and the family she has built in front of it.
Sumi has made a life worth protecting: a husband who is good to her, a daughter, and a distance from a past she has never spoken about out loud. Then Fela resurfaces, and the thing she did years ago comes to collect.
It is the division's largest production to date — a cinema release carried by Nancy Isime, Enyinna Nwigwe, Shaffy Bello, Omowunmi Dada and Ademola Adedoyin, co-produced with Native Media and Whitestone Pictures and distributed by Blue Pictures Entertainment. Don Crucifixto appears in the cast as Tumi “DC” Oluyole, which is the version of this division the group is building toward: not a logo on the end card, but a hand in the work.
Drama · 1h 44m · released 27 June 2025 in Nigerian cinemas · distributed by Blue Pictures Entertainment.
03 — Formats · Unscripted · Distribution
Television
Owned formats built around the group's own activity — beginning with DC Chronicles.
Television is where the company's work becomes a format. DC Chronicles follows Don Crucifixto through Lagos: street outreach, competition winners, the businesses he backs and the people the music comes from, shot as documentary rather than promo.
Every episode is an asset with a second life — footage feeds the archive, the archive feeds the campaigns, and the format itself is licensable.
The Format
DC Chronicles
Documentary, not promotion. The camera follows the work — and then gets out of the way while people speak for themselves.
Each episode moves through Lagos with Don Crucifixto: street outreach and the Life Is Us team, competition winners collected and taken out for the day, the galleries and businesses the group backs, the studio at the end of it.
Nobody is filmed without consent and nobody is edited into a beneficiary. Recipients are interviewed on camera in their own words, and the cut keeps them there.
Screening Room
Dinma
A family drama from Ene Ogiri Drama TV — the trailer, playing here rather than behind a link.
Nigeria's independent drama channels are where the audience already sits: a title like this reaches a household through a phone and a subscription, with no distributor between the story and the person watching it.
That is the market both divisions are built for, and the reason the file is hosted on this page. Nothing leaves for a third-party player, and nothing about the work is decided by somebody else's recommendation feed.
Screening credit: produced and directed by Ene Ogiri for Ene Ogiri Drama TV. Full episodes run on the channel.
How We Develop
Three rules, applied to everything
01
Rights before release
Nothing enters production until the underlying rights sit inside the group. A film the company does not own is a marketing expense wearing a script.
02
Cast from the place
Stories set in Lagos are made with people from Lagos — in front of the camera, behind it, and in the room where the edit is signed off.
03
Every frame has a second life
Field footage becomes archive, archive becomes campaign, and the format itself stays licensable. One shoot, several assets, one owner.
Co-produce
Bring a script, a slate or a slot
Development finance, co-production, distribution and format licensing — through Don Crucifixto Entertainment.