SceneOne Productions, Limited
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Grants
2
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Total Awarded
$1,070,000
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Years
2017 - 2021
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Categories
Grants
2021 (1 year 5 months)
$270,000
Established in 2009, SceneOne Productions, Ltd. is a for-profit media and communications company that spreads anti-corruption messaging through comedy on television and online. A previous Foundation award enabled SceneOne Productions to use its popular television comedy Jenifa's Diary to sensitize and galvanize the Nigerian public to act on corruption. With this final award, SceneOne uses humor and satire to target specific corrupt behaviors. It crafts accountability messages that galvanize public awareness and agency focused on women, the poor, young people, and persons with disabilities across 24 episodes of Jenifa's Diary. SceneOne takes advantage of television and smartphones to reach tens of millions of Nigerians in-country and abroad with its anti-corruption-themed programming. This award contributes to On Nigeria's overarching goal of reducing corruption and strengthening accountability, transparency, and participation.
2017 (3 years)
$800,000
Scene One Productions, Ltd. is a for-profit media and communications company with experience in developing accountability messaging using television and online video. Established in 2009, Scene One Productions has a popular television comedy called Jenifa Diary, which won the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Award in 2017 for best television series. With this award, Scene One Productions is sensitizing and galvanizing the Nigerian public to reflect on accountability. The project contributes to On Nigeria’s goal of reducing corruption by building an atmosphere of accountability, transparency, and good governance in Nigeria.
