Hilarious LAPD African Cops hits cinema Friday

A Hollywood-Nollywood film, LAPD African Cops, has extended the frontiers of comedy in both climes. A production of The Atuma Brothers International Company (TABIC), LAPD is a hilarious comedy based on a stereotypical behavioral reality.

It is a story of two Africans who came to the United States of America and joined the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). They were commissioned and deployed to the streets of Los Angeles, but rather than employ the LAPD rules and regulations to judge the American streets; they decided to rule the streets using African culture, norms and values.

Shot in the United States and distributed in West Africa by Silverbird Film Distribution, LAPD African Cops will premiere at the Silverbird Galleria, Victoria Island, Lagos on Friday December 4, 2015, while it would hit the cinemas across the country the same day.

Produced by Dr. Oscar Atuma and Pascal Atuma, co-produced by Ime Etuk and written and directed by Pascal Atuma, the film reflects the cultural differences between the Americans and African-Americans. It tends to close the gap between African-Americans and Africans, giving hope that the chains of the past will someday be broken, and humanity will see each other as one.LAPD African Cops parades Hollywood and Nollywood stars including Vanessa Bell Calloway (Eddie Murphy’s Coming To America), Luenell (Borat), Dorien Wilson (The Parkers), Brian Hooks (Eve’s Show), Mari Morrow (One Life To Live), Jaszmin Lewis (Barbershop), and Trina Mcgee (Friday After Next with Ice Cube).

Others are Bless Brown Vera (Sexy Boy In America), Tonya Lee Williams (Young & Restless), Caryn Ward-Ross (The Game), and Pascal and Oscar Atuma (My American Nurse and Okoto the Messenger).

While commenting on LAPD that won three awards at the just concluded Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards (GIAMA) in Houston, Texas, the producer, Pascal Atuma, said: “LAPD African Cops is a film that uses comedy to deliver several messages for the betterment of the society at large. Be you American, European, Asian, or African, there is a message for everyone in this film, and you will laugh till you drop while receiving the message.”