Rita Dominic rewards budding actors ₦1.4m for acting challenge

The Rita Dominic Acting Challenge has come to an end with the OG actress rewarding budding actors with the sum of ₦1.4 million.

Last month, Dominic, in collaboration with Heritage Bank, started the challenge; which was for aspiring actors to adapt and act out a scene from her latest film La Femme Anjola. The actors, Jasmine Wrights, Chioma Okafor, and Josh Anowi won N1 million, N300,000 and N100,000 respectively for emerging winners of the acting challenge for the neo-noir film.

Rita Dominic announced the winners of the acting challenge announced on Monday, April 5 after a rigorous process of selection from multiple entries.

“When I first started acting in Nollywood 23 years ago, it was very difficult after finishing school,” Dominic said at the cheque presentation event. “So, my dream was to find a way to give opportunities to upcoming actors so they don’t have to go through the rigorous process.

“For so many years, I didn’t have the opportunity to bring my dream to life. Luckily, Heritage bank came on board and partnered with us this year and I felt this is a fantastic opportunity to bring to life this long-life dream. And with the help of my business partner and director, we decided to put out a monologue from our new film, La Femme Anjola; that whoever does win will have an opportunity to feature in our next project aside winning a prize.

Dominic said, “It was difficult because we had several entries; I will tell you that we have lots of talents in this country. But at the end of the day, Jasmine won.”

La Femme Anjola, which Rita Dominic co-produced, hit theatres on March 19 2020. The movie is still showing in theatres and has made a killing so far.