Shola Thompson

Shola Thompson is regarded as a veteran in Radio, Film and Television in Nigeria. 

He started his career on radio at Silverbird’s Rhythm 93.7 in 2003 with a syndicated weekend program titled ‘The Silverscreen’, a show about upcoming movies, movie trailers and movie mistakes. He was also the host of the very popular show ‘Rhythms of the Night’.  

In 2005, he was engaged as a Cinema Consultant and played a key role in the launch of Silverbird Cinemas, with the target of creating and developing a cinema culture.   

Furthermore, he was given the responsibility – as part of a 3-man quality control team – to launch Silverbird TV in the same year.   

Between 2007 and 2010, Shola worked as Talent Manager, Nigeria for MTVbase Africa with the main responsibility of critiquing and fixing videos submitted for broadcast to their head office in South Africa, as well as selecting top Nigerian artistes to be featured on the Viacom platform.   

As a Broadcaster, he’s honed his skills at various radio stations including Rhythm 93.7, Inspiration fm, Smooth 98.1FM and helped launch radio stations such as Soundcity 98.5 fm and Super fm Lagos. He also consults for other radio stations and currently facilitates an Academy teaching courses on How to become a Radio personality courtesy City 105.1fms City Media Academy. He is currently the host of Bar room therapy on the Wedding Channel Africa. 

A full time Film consultant, he reads potential scripts before the next phase of production and screens film projects before their final exports.   

He critics movies weekly on the Beardface Film show once a week on YouTube and on his Instagram page and has featured on multiple occasions on STv and TvC as a guest critic for Nigerian films.  

To his credit, he wrote, directed and edited the movie “SEE” for the Africa Magic Showcase and Showmax. He also has to his credit two short films and a Web series – Lucky Number 7,  Max and Pillow Talk respectively.  He also ran a podcast titled ‘The Movie Business Podcast’ for Talent-X Africa to help upcoming filmmakers source for potential investors. 

He currently has a movie titled “Last Call” starring Zainab Balogun that boasted a decent cinema run and also is soon to make its appearance on streaming platforms worldwide.