Nollywood Director, Moses Ebere is Dead
Ace Nollywood director, Moses Ebere who worked on Nollywood classics like ‘Living In Bondage’, has been confirmed dead.
Although not much has been revealed about the cause of death as at the time of filing this report, Amayo Uzo Philips, a colleague to the filmmaker, confirmed Ebere’s demise in a post via his Facebook page.
“I heard very bad news about Moses Ebere, one of the oldest Nollywood veteran directors. Met him in the ’80s as a powerful editor and that was before the coming of Nollywood,” Uzo wrote.
“I spoke with him regularly recently because he was planning to come and shoot in my state.
And I was helping him with an epic location. This night one of my writer friends called me to say that Moses has passed on today. Sad news for me.”
In another Facebook post, the Golden Pictures icon disclosed that Ebere was to direct a movie slated to begin this weekend.
“My heart is so down when I opened my Facebook this morning 23rd of March 2022 and saw everyone commenting RIP, I ask how could that be when I no spoke to you yesterday been 22nd morning, I told him that, I will call back in the evening when I get home because I was on the bike, and you answered OK.
He was to DIRECT THE UPCOMING MOVIE IN FESTAC TOWN I POSTED STARTING THIS WEEKEND. FATHER IN HEAVEN YOU NO WHY YOU CALLED HIM.. WITH HEAVY HEART I SAY RIP DIRECTOR Moses Ebere My able D is gone..,” Golden Pictures icon wrote.
Speaking with TheCable Lifestyle, a source said the director’s guild in Abia state — where the deceased hailed from, is still working to ascertain the circumstances surrounding Ebere’s death.
“He’s a part of the directors guild. It’s just the death that the friends told us. Until the Abia state is able to contact the family to ascertain the position of things, we can’t say anything on the circumstances of his death,” the source said.
Ebere began his career as a film editor in the early days of Nollywood.
He edited some of the earliest Nollywood blockbusters and Television series, including ‘Living in Bondage’ and ‘Glamour Girls’ as well as Nigeria’s longest tv series, ‘Ripples.’
Ebere is also known for his work in Spanner (2002), Spanner Goes to Jail (2004), and Spanner 3 (2004).
