“Nigerian Filmmakers should focus on telling stories that promote African culture,” Favour George.
George Favour feels the need to continue investing work to develop his career.
“Nigerian Filmmakers should focus on telling stories that promote African culture,” Favour George.
During the course of our interview, George Favour, confidently described himself as a young boy chasing his dreams. Living life with each step along the way focused on achieving his goals and huge filmmaking ambitions. George Favour, founder of South Visuals, is presently thriving. In his words, “I am trying to make art from nothing.”
20-year old George Favour, started a dance career at the age of 8. He began dancing professionally from 2016-2020. According to Favour, “While I was dancing at the time, I felt I needed to find myself. I believed there were hidden potentials I needed to unleash. That was when mobile video editing commenced,” He revealed.
From finding himself as a proper mobile video editor to make ends meet for himself. As a young responsible Nigerian living with abstinence from crime and not indulging in illegal means of earning cold cash. He morphed from being a passionate dancer to a random mobile video editor. With such an intense love for making videos and putting clips together to tell stories. George Favour has been exploring the art of telling stories through filmmaking. “I basically love to make videos, put clips together and tell stories from it. As time went on I grew to understand that my love for telling stories is not just random, rather it’s something I am currently making a career of a lifetime from. Everything started as I took a bold step to explore the world of filmmaking,” He added.
Several reasons propelled George Favour into filmmaking, which consists of sharing the world with his peculiar vision. Apart from being a genuine lover of street life and culture. George Favour, is within the sphere of film making as someone creating films around street atmosphere. He is telling stories that unfold so much about street life. It is one of the core highlights of his debut film tagged, “Ends.”
Concerning the production of his debut film “Ends,” George Favour shared. “It took a lot of work to put the project together. We needed to focus more on the pre-production phase because proper planning definitely does result in smooth production,” He said. Expressing his sincere gratitude towards every cast that came through. Down to the location management company “See Vieww,” that made the location scouting much easier.
George Favour feels the need to continue investing work to develop his career. He affirmed strongly that alot is coming in the remaining months of the year. As for when his sophomore project would follow the sequel of “Ends.” There is such an enamored assurance for what would be coming next. He said, “Well about my next short film. I don't have an actual date yet but I want viewers to expect greatness. Like I always say, alot is coming in 2023. I feel happy about putting out my debut short film. I am also excited for the positive feedback I’ve been getting. Several individuals have the opportunity to feel and see my imagination come to life. It’s a big win for me as much as it means alot for my career. I am grateful for being able to achieve this one,” He concluded.
He envisions himself living the dream in a few years time. Executing bigger projects and working with some of the most renowned names within the global film making stratosphere. Young aspiring 20-year old George Favour, is growing into a great example for other filmmakers out there. He is a product of Port Harcourt. A filmmaker and location manager. In the course of our chat. He offered a few words bearing encouragement urging other young filmmakers never to relent. While his idea about the Nigerian film industry piqued my entire interest. I became glad after speaking with such an incredible Gen Z filmmaker. George Favour sounded with vigor and great optimism during our interview.
With his continued hard work, despite the challenges surrounding him. He believes so much more has to be done. He also added that, “Nigerian filmmakers should focus on telling stories that promote African culture. They should put our culture first.” These were some of the words George Favour said. And genuinely speaking I was excited to speak with him.
