CULTURE, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT *Promoting the three Bottom lines*
More pictures from the Special Practical Sessions of the Practical Phase of the skills Acquisition training and empowerment programme conducted by the African Film Institute in Jos, Plateau state.
The Special Practical Phase of the training was designed to give the trainees direct access to a professional film set by way of active participation and involvement in the activities of a real film production.
The African Film Institute (AFI) is proving to be intentional, deliberate and committed in its efforts to lay a solid foundation in Film Making and Creative Media Production for the over 300 hundred trainee participants.
The trainees are taking part in a 6 months, skill acquisition and empowerment training that the institute is organising for them in the City of Jos, the capital of Plateau state, North Central Nigeria.
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| Special Practical Phase |
As the heading of this write-up is staring you in the face, it does clearly, more than explaining to you, dear esteemed reader and friend that this publication is a work started in the past, and therefore, a continuation of an earlier publication.
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| From the Special Practical Phase of the training |
A popular saying has it that "Beliefs are harder to shake than knowledge".
In this piece, my focus is to discuss this age long popular axiom, with regard to what is expected in reality from the participants of the ongoing skills acquisition training programme in Film Making and Creative Media Production that the African Film Institute is conducting in the serene and captivating City of Jos, the Plateau state capital, North Central Nigeria.
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| A lighting equipment used for the training |
Recently, Scoreline reported that the introductory training classes conducted for the commencement of lessons for more than 300 participants of the 6 months skills acquisition programme hosted in Jos, the Plateau state capital, has come to an end.
The introductory training classes that just ended, is part of the ongoing 6 months skills acquisition training in Film Making and Creative Media Production, designed by the African Film Institute (AFI).
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| A typical introductory class session of the programme |
The over one month introductory classes of the on-going, hands on, skill acquisition training, in Film Making and Creative Media Production, holding in Jos, the Plateau state capital, North Central Nigeria, has come to an end, and a new phase begins.
The entire skill acquisition training, in Film Making and Creative Media Production programme, which is designed to run for 6 months, between the last quarter of 2025 (October to December) and first quarter of 2026 (January to March), has entered the practical phase. Though, classes for this phase is yet to commence, the participants are busy conducting the activities required of them to ensure the phase runs smoothly, Scoreline reports.
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| Investigation cum Interrogation scene. One of the classroom sessions of the programme |
"Competence and its companion, functional skill, are fundamental tools for the success minded. They are critical tools, necessary for the attainment of worthwhile results. They stand in a strategic position, and to a large extent determine the success of individuals and Nations on one hand, and on the other hand their failure.
"Competence and functional skill, are essential to sustainable growth and development. They are to success what blood is to the body"... Nnabugwu Chizoba
The statement above, though brief, captures my understanding of how important the tools of "Competence and Functional Skill" are to humans.