Tunde Kelani’s Mainframe team wins top prize at CultureShift 3

Barely two days to his birthday, Mainframe team led by Tunde Kelani were announced as winners of CultureShift 3 - hackaton - workshop organised by the British Council and Co-Creative Hub on Sunday, 23 February, 2014.
CultureShift; a programme created to engage creative entrepreneurs and organisation to use technology to provide solutions for challenges started last year on the Ideation stage with 15 companies competing and six companies getting shortlisted to progress to the hackathon stage and the selection of a winner.
Mainframe presented a platform for Yoruba Global Content; movies, trailers, musical videos, teleplays etc. across - mobile, web and internet TV. They built an App called ‘OPOMULERO’ which would run on Android, Ios, blackberry and other operating systems.
With this announcement coming three days to his birthday; veteran director; Tunde Kelani said “I am excited about this and this platform is like a birthday present to me, I am not planning any party this year but I believe that it has been marked by this milestone. I wish to thank family, friends, benefactors, supporters and audience for your love and support.”
Unveiling a new logo as well on his birthday, the veteran added “I shall need you more in the next phase of my life. There are a lot of goodies in 2014 – Dazzling Mirage; a new film set for release soon, Omuti - Palmwine Drinkard (stage re-adaptation), YEEPA Solaarin Nbo (stage) and the ultimate - OPOMULERO -platform for Yoruba Global Content.”

Having spent over 40 years in film production, Kelani, the foremost cinematographer is the executive director of Mainframe Film and Television Productions, an outfit he set up to document Nigeria's rich culture. He joined Western Nigeria Television (WNTV) in 1970 and worked for 10 years in both Western Nigeria Television (WNTV) and Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) in Lagos before studied the Art and Technique of Filmmaking at the London International Film School, London. When he returned he did a lot of works for many organisations including Reuters.

TK’s current project, Dazzling Mirage was written by Dr. Olayinka Abimbola Egbokhare in the Department of Communication and Language Art, the University of Ibadan.