Nkonkonsa Celebrity Gossip From Africa
Popular Ghanaian actor and playwright, Fiifi Coleman has bemoaned the dire financial conditions of Ghana’s film industry due to a lack of funding.
He claims that Tiktokers charges a staggering GH¢50,000 to run a three-month promo of which they conduct two postings every week, even though the actors do not make much money from the movies.
In order to improve their work and make it more advantageous to support the performers financially, he underlined the need for additional investors to join the movie industry.
In an interview with 3Music TV that GhanaWeb saw, Fiifi Coleman revealed that actors receive pitiful pay whereas Tiktokers receive GH¢50,000 in three months for movie promotion.
“I just thought about some very, very easy money people are making out of this whole industry. TikTok, Pick them up. A TikTok influencer will charge you GH¢50,000 to run a three-month promo for you, where they do two posts a week. I’m not talking to organizers. How many people make that money? Which industry is paying anyone to do two posts?
“And that’s just like the ones that are quote-unquote, untrained. The ones that have forced themselves into dancing like I can do mimicking and all of those things.”
He further called on investors and corporate institutions to come on board and support the movie industry to revive it.
“Now we are trying to revive ourselves and to realize that we need more than what we used to do to produce what we were having. We need more money now, we need more experience now. We need collaborations too,” said Fiifi Coleman.
Some actors in the country have complained about the deplorable state of the Ghana movie industry blaming it on lack of investment.
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