OUR COMPANY
REMDEL OPTIMUM
COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
REMDEL OPTIMUM COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED is a multi dimensional entertainment content entrepreneur.
The company provides its customers with variety of entertainment and communication deliverables. It is an integrated Film, Music, Television production and Marketing Company licensed by the Nigeria Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) as a National Distributor and about the only company patterned after the American Studio type in Nigeria. The company was incorporated on 8th of March, 1993 with registration number RC 217325.
The varieties of Television Production we engage in include News Packages, Documentaries, News Magazine Programmes, Current Affairs, Entertainment Programmes, Cultural Orientation Programmes, Religious Programmes, etc.
WE RUN AND MAINTAIN THE LARGEST FILM DISTRIBUTION AND VERIFIABLE NETWORK IN NIGERA
Apart from its own outlets, ROCOM has entered into partnership with many other community based retailers to strengthen its distribution chain and has cultivated some Retail Partners in its bid to reach many more customers. These are establishments who have their own businesses but sell our films. ROCOM also has a virile mobile trading arm whose responsibility is to take the goods directly to the last buyer who may not look for the films in the shops.
The whole idea is to invigorate the distribution value chain of the film/ movie industry and to inject some dynamism into the laid-back shops system. This has proved very complimentary to the age long shelf display system and has helped to maximize sales.
Apart from our strong emphasis on virile distribution chain, Remdel engages in an Annual Capacity Building Workshop which is directed at filling critical and sensitive gaps in the production and marketing process. It has been observed that more attention, interests and emphasis have been shifted to acting to the detriment of other equally vibrant and profitable areas of production. The Capacity Building workshop started in 2007.
It therefore became necessary to enlist interests of youngsters and budding talents in the entertainment industry so as to move people without jobs to jobs without people. Through this process, we are able to raise distributors to build a virile network.
The company also engages in yearly Film Festival which is called Festival of Indigenous African Language Films (FIAF). This festival holds in Akure, Ondo State and it has attracted participants from all over the country as well as internationally.
As a follow up to the Capacity Building Workshop and also due to the clamour by beneficiaries of the programmes who became thirsty for knowledge, the BSN ART INSTITUTE was established in Akure to give further training in all areas of film production. The first batch of students was enrolled in January 2009 to provide 1world class training under the tutorship of the best of brains in the industry.
Remdel has produced block buster movies like Afonja, Owo Eje, Basorun Gaa, Igi Aruwe, Odidere and many others. We are also finalizing arrangements to start a TV drama series running in all the States of the South-West including Kogi and Kwara States to partly provide forum for the Students of BSN Art Institute to effectively practice their trades as well for other social reasons. The title of the programme is ‘Ajankorodugbe’. Others in the category are ‘Baba De Juntion’, an hilarious Comedy and ‘Agbo Ile Owonikoko’, a Yoruba Soap Opera on TV.
Remdel is also currently running a campaign aimed at creating a Film-Production Friendly COMMUNITY around Ekiti and Ondo States with the aim of attracting film production and production budgets to these two States and also to boost tourism, provide employment as well as to promote the local culture of the States. This is in collaboration with the governments of the States.
ROCOM is the founding father and a foundation member of Independent Films & Video Producers Association of Nigeria ( INFIVPMAN ). This Association is registered by the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the Company & Allied Matters Decree, 1990. The incorporation Certificate number of the Association is CAC/ IT/ NO/24330.
ROCOM also started 24 hour broadcasting in September, 2015 on the Star Times around Akure and its environs on Channel 171 REMDEL TV. The studios of the TV channel are built in Akure, Ondo State where we transmit with the target of moving to Lagos soon.
The Founder
REMI IBITOLA | Position: CEO | Experience: 20 years
Biodun Ibitola is a graduate of Theatre Arts of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile – Ife, Nigeria where she majored in directing. She worked in the broadcast media, FRCN, OSRC,& BSES (Radio & TV) where she gained twenty years experience.
A film producer of many years standing, Biodun has to her credit full length features films such as: Afonja, Owo Eje, Ofinga, Ojo Ola to mention just a few. She also co- sponsored many other full length features films, scores of musicals and some documentaries to her credit.
She is the winner of Best Indigenous Film Producer of the ZAFA Award, London, 2009; Distinguished Alumna Award of the Faculty of Arts OAU, Ile Ife, 2005; Nollywood Outstanding Personality Award, 2007; Distinguished Alumnus Award of Ife Theatre Legacy, OAU, Ife; Award of Excellence in Creativity by Yoruba Studies Association, 2007, to mention just a few.
She is the founder and a trustee of The Independent Film & Video Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria, Chairperson Coalition of Associations of Film and Video Distributors in Nigeria, Festival Director, Festival of Indigenous African Language Films and Managing Director, Remdel Optimum Communications Limited.
Biodun had attended seminars, workshops and film festivals in the United States of America, United Kingdom, Israel and several African Countries.
DIRECTORS & MANAGEMENT
Our Management Team
BOLADELE IBITOLA
Position: Managing Director
Experience: 6 years
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ADELANI OYETOKUN
Position: Commercial Manager
Experience: 20 years
TEMITOPE ADELUGBA
Position: Finance & Administration Manager
Experience: 13 years
