Filmmaker Toyin Abraham has revealed that a leading global streaming platform has bought the her film Oversabi Aunty.
She made the revelation on Thursday at an event hosted by the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) in Lagos. The board honoured her for Oversabi Aunty crossing the N1 billion mark at the Nigerian box office.
Toyin Abraham thanked God, her husband Kolawole Ajeyemi, Olori Temitope Ogunwusi and the NFVCB before speaking about her journey.
“Sometimes there are some dreams that you just — you will believe they will never come to pass. You will just see those dreams, and you wish. And they just come to pass,” she said.
Reflecting on her path to directing, she said she had always produced films but hired other directors. She described deciding to take on Oversabi Aunty entirely on her own.
“I said, I want to do this film by myself, alone,” she said. “So last year I said, I don’t want anybody to be involved in this. Let me handle everything by myself … So anytime I go everywhere, I noticed people started calling me Oversabi Aunty because of Priscilla’s wedding, so I said let me do something with Oversabi Aunty.”
She said she approached filmmaker Bolanle Austen‑Peters for support on the technical side and that the project grew from there.
“And by the way, imagine one of my dreams, I just left cinema. And we have the biggest streaming platform bought this movie already. I will announce it soon,” she said.
She added that Oversabi Aunty was her first directorial film and she didn’t have an assistant. Toyin added that she wrote the story herself.
The executive director of the NFVCB delivered opening remarks at the ceremony, applauding Toyin’s achievement. The award was presented in the presence of industry figures including Blessing Ebigieson, national president of the Association of Movie Producers Nigeria; Patrick Lee, head of operations at Viva Cinemas; and Grace Edwin‑Okon, vice president of the Directors Guild of Nigeria.
Oversabi Aunty has become one of the few Nigerian films to clear N1 billion at cinemas.
