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, Shola currently works at Smooth 98.1FM, and at Wedding Channel Africa as a TV host for the show - Bar Room Therapy.
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 also features every Friday on Silverbird Television for their film segment spoiler alert as an in-house movie critic.
To his credit, he wrote, directed and edited the DSTV movie “SEE" for the Africa Magic Showcase. He also has to his credit two short films and a Web series - Lucky Number 7, Max and Pillow Talk respectively.
Shola is currently running a podcast titled ‘The Movie Business Podcast’ for the Production Company called Talent-X Africa and is also consulting for ARM pensions to produce a Vodcast (Video Podcast) titled “This Is Why You're Broke".