Filmmaker Moses Ebere has died.
The movie director’s death was recently announced by fellow filmmaker Amayo Uzo Phillips on Facebook.
“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,” he wrote.
In another post on Facebook, the Aki na Ukwa director 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,” he wrote.
Ebere graduated from the University of Benin.
He began his career as a film editor in the early days of Nollywood.
He edited some of the earliest Nollywood movies Living in Bondage, Glamour Girls and the hit series, Ripples.
Ebere is also known for his work in Spanner and Spanner Goes to Jail.
