Robert Peters
Directing
Biography
Peters was born in Sabon Gari, Kaduna, Northern Nigeria and is the second of eight children. His parents are Lawrence Adagba and Comfort Peters. He is of Afemai descent and hails from Ososo in the Akoko Edo local government area of Edo State. Peters began his formal education at St. Gregory Primary School in Kaduna. He attended the University of Jos Nigeria, where he studied Geology and Mining. Peters began his career as an actor in Nigeria in the 1998 movie Mama Sunday, and went on to play the role of Paul in 2002 in the daytime series Everyday People created by Tajudeen Adepetu. In 2004 he relocated to the US, where he enrolled for a certificate degree in Visual Storytelling hosted by New York University. Peters was then associated with Film Career Connection in Atlanta, which offered him on-the-job training on various film sets across the US. He also enlisted with REDucation a real world training on Red camera and equipment, taught by working professionals, for current and future working professionals. Peters began working as a cinematographer and film editor in 2006 and worked on a number of African-American Productions. In 2014, it was reported that the comedy film, 30 Days in Atlanta, directed by Peters, was the highest-grossing film of all time at the Nigerian box office. The movie was also featured in the 2017 Guinness Book of Records as one of the films with the highest domestic gross in the territories of Bollywood, Nollywood and Hollywood, listed alongside PK (from Bollywood) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (from Hollywood). Peters is married to Deborah Peters and they have a son Zachary Lawrence Onafa-Orafa Peters. They own and run Whitestone Pictures LLC, a film production studio and equipment provider based in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Known For
In an effort to dismantle their military-backed government, four men hijack an airplane, leveraging passengers onboard in the name of social change.
Hijack '93
Akpos wins a 30-day holiday for two to Atlanta, Georgia. He takes his cousin (Richard), an IT specialist on the all- expense paid trip. Akpos flung his unique personality, showing-off his smartness and foolishness in an exciting mix of rhetoric andwitty humour.
30 Days in Atlanta
A story about the adventures of a newly engaged couple in their relatives residence outside Nigeria, and how the secrets of their host led to the eventual breakup of their union amidst the culture shock of the new country and living with upper-class citizens.
A Trip to Jamaica
Money is not necessarily the key to happiness. It can easily be considered man's worst downfall. Michael Adeyemi was destined to be a billionaire by the age of 35 and with money comes access to the fine things of life. Find out how Michael's desperate quest for fortune and success would cost him the number one thing money cannot buy - Family. Blinded by selfish ambitions, pride and appetite for greed leads him down a path of self-destruction, blinding him to the only thing that is worth saving. It all comes crashing down on "Boxing Day" where Michael is swept under a sea of adversities caused by none other than himself. Watch this downpour of self-inflicted wave of adversities with rippling effects that triggers thought provoking questions, of love, pain, pride and ultimate redemption - what if you never get that second chance?
Boxing Day: A Day After Christmas
Mugabe rises from being a prisoner to power as a guerrilla fighter but gradually becomes the world's top tyrant. After four decades in power his allies do the unexpected.
Mugabe
A group of African scientists arrive on the Skeleton Coast in search of Blunamite, a never-before-seen gem, rumoured to be on the coastline of Namibia. When one of them ends up dead, they are not sure whether one of them is the culprit or whether the coast is sending them an ominous message.
Skeleton Coast
When a business mogul hires an exotic dancer for a weekend of entertainment, it quickly morphs into a messy situation full of misunderstanding.
Small Chops
A bright and promising young girl gets abducted and taken to a terrorist camp, where she unexpectedly crosses paths with her soulmate.
Voiceless
After his father passes, the heir to a retail empire returns to take over the family business but faces a controversy involving laundering and murder.
Zero Hour
A group of college students find themselves in the middle of a deadly game of Scavenger Hunt.
Scavenger Hunt
Akpos jets off with his family to the exotic city of Miami, Florida to represent Nigeria at the Intercontinental Christmas Fiesta, which is a unifying Fiesta that will bring together 6 families from 6 very diverse nations across 5 continents, to spend the week leading up to Christmas together, on an exotic island in Miami, USA. This 'mini' Olympics of Christmas is a multi-ethnic story of unity in diversity. It celebrates how we are all different, but the same, or how we are all 'same difference'. It reminds that Christmas transcends skin colour and racial barriers. It's a rib-tickling comedy that aims to unite borders by helping each of the nations represented to also debunk long-held negative stereotypes and perceptions that the general public always had about them. And of course, somewhere in between all of these, we are treated to endless servings of Akpos' mis-adventures.
Christmas in Miami
After getting married, a man becomes entangled in a perilous love triangle, forcing him to navigate treacherous emotions and hidden secrets.
Closure Mandate
Bianca, a middle aged, elegant and beautiful woman, is bewitched with the craving for wealth, a desire she would go to any length to satisfy and secure. A home breaker, husband snatcher and conniving selfish gold-digger saddled with the burden of two male children, Sunny and Chuks from her first marriage, traverses the city in search of the man who can afford to tend to her craving after divorcing her husband.
Bianca
A tale of a vulnerable, unsuspecting woman on a trail of rebuilding her shattered life.
Adora
Three women on a morning train face life-changing choices that force them to confront love, betrayal, and desire as they decide their futures.
Conversations in transit
A man plagued by nightmares discovers his past life as a great warrior is driving his present and future.