At “The Edge” with Queen Efon the First Of Duisburg

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Queen Efon landed her first film credit in June 2024 as an actress and executive producer in the short film Time for war, a thriller written and produced and directed by Percy Monday Edoki. Queen pursued in movie production, releasing still in 2024 the movie The Edge featuring once again prominent Nollywood superstars in the likes of Vincent Opurum and Joseph Daniels.

The success of the The Edge in 2024, directed by Kenneth U. Ibeanudi (ANMD) on which she worked as an executive producer and actress brought her attention and credibility and launched her career as a producer. Queen delved into the film business in 2020 when she moved to Germany. She attended several red carpet event there as well as in Nigeria, where she met Percy Monday Edoki, with whom she latter in collaborated. He wrote and directed Queens’ Time for War. The duo made plans for The Edge, starring Prince Nwafor, Vincent Opurum, Joseph Daniels, herself and a host others.

Queen further provided some financing for more movies still in 2024. The first was Time For War staring major Nollywood A-list actors in the likes of Kelvin Ikeduba, Junior Pope, Joseph Daniels, Cordillia Okonta, herself and many others. It received fair attention at film festivals and did not gain the most desired popular acclamation upon release.

She has since founded QUEEN EFON PRODUCTIONS and EFON TV Pictures, a company that plans to take a so-called “Silicon Valley” approach to filmmaking by investing in original, daring movies made by prestigious directors and screenwriters. Believing that risk-averse Nollywood studios have largely abandoned sophisticated dramas, period pieces, and auteur cinema, QUEEN EFON PRODUCTIONS sets at releasing cutting-edge movies in their next productions, Queen Efon’s charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women.

The Edge, also made in 2024, got a release and pretty good at the box office as it englobed well known cast of popular actors on the African continent. Her investment paid off as that movie found major commercial and critical success when released by mid-2024.

She regularly makes her voice heard when it comes to GBV issues, leading support groups on how to go about abuses. On several occasions, we’ve heard her criticize discrimination against women. Her platform is on the way whereby she will tackle these issues and provide not only counseling but reinsertion programs for these women.

Queen Efon also advocates breastfeeding. She aims at reducing the stigma associated with breastfeeding (especially among working-class women) and to encourage infant nutrition. One of her major courses in this like is to have jobsites provide particular rooms for their breast-feeding staff. A certain number of hours should equally be set aside for this activity.

Queen is equally pretty much involved in humanitarian actions as she often provides psycho-emotional, material and financial support to orphanages.

Lately with the outbreak of civil unrest in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon, she has tremendously provided support (school furniture and foodstuff) to the internally displaced due to these conflicts, “Being an orphan myself, I can totally relate their struggles. It’s the hardest battle I’ve had to deal with in my life. Losing your parents is not something you can wish for anybody, not even your worst enemy”, she said.

In 2023, started creating awareness on rare diseases, particularly autism. This was the result of her encounter with an autistic child. She confessed she had heard about the condition before but had never done any particular research on it until her encounter with this child. “I actually found what I read captivating and thought about the misconception several people can have about kids with the condition. Their intelligence left me startled”, excerpts of an interview she granted to ywehottv during the commemoration of world autism day, 2023.