The name Teco Benson is synonymous with Nollywood , and that is because he has been in the industry for 21 years and has made several blockbusters movies.
The seasoned filmmaker who started his career as an actor in 1994 is renowned for his action movies, and owing to that; he is fondly called Action Director.
In this interview with NET, Teco Benson speaks on his career as an actor, producer and director.
You are known for action/thriller movies, why is it that you always shoot such movies?
In 1992 Nollywood was born, the new Nollywood that we have today. Just like you and I know, before the Nollywood of today, there was a film industry that existed and died. In 1992 ‘Living in Bondage’ was the film that started this new phenomenon. And if you could remember, the film had this theme of blood money, rituals and all that, so every other film that came after that tended towards that theme, because the market bought into that. So subsequent producers, subsequent films that emerged in that era actually stuck in that theme. So, I came in in 1994, two years after ‘Living in Bondage.’ After some years, the media began to take serious swipe at the industry because of the theme. And as a good filmmaker and as a good listener I decided to be different, I decided to focus on another area.
Action was not a very easy place to trade on because there were no action movies before, so we have to take the bull by the horns. I actually did the first one in 1997 called ‘Eye for Eye’ which featured Segun Arinze, Ramsey Noah, Hilda Dokubo and co. And people bought into it. It was a commercial success. In 1998, I followed it up with a movie called ‘Executive Crime,’ …Read More
Source:: The NET
