Award-winning Nollywood filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan, has revealed that his latest hit movie,October 1 has bagged a distribution deal withNetflix, one of the biggest global online distribution platforms in the world.

With 2015 having started on a very good note for the producer as he received the Nollywood Man of the Year award at The Sun Awards last weekend, he said the deal is just the beginning of even bigger and better things this year.

Making this known, an excited Kunle said: ‘I am happy and delighted to announce that October 1has gotten a deal with Netflix. Netflix covers the whole of Europe and America. That means the film will be exposed to the world. It is a distribution deal. Netflix is an SVOD platform, an online platform that you can watch on your television. Their application is everywhere. They are one of the most recognised SVOD platforms around the word.’

He said with the new deal, the movie will be subtitled in 10 different languages and has been selected in some major film festivals around the world along with international premieres in view.

‘It is going to the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles which I should be attending in the first week of February. It has also been selected for the Luxor Film Festival in Egypt. I am also going to be attending that,’ he said.

It will be recalled that the film, a psychological thriller, featuring veteran broadcaster and actor, Sadiq Daba; Kehinde Bankole, Kanayo O. Kanayo and Kunle Afolayan himself, received 13 nominations, the highest in this year’s edition ofAfrica Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA).

The film also won the awards for Best Feature Film, Best Actor and Best Screenplay awards at the 2014 edition of Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF).