How to make fortunes in Nollywood – Zik Zulu OkaforBy Azuh Amatus
Published: November 24, 2007
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Despite its ranking as the third largest movie making empire behind Hollywood and Bollywood, Zik Zulu-Okafor, a trained theatre artist and movie producer, has insisted Nollywood came into being by an accident...
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Ty Rawls: Discovering The Africa In Nigerian MoviesBy Sola Osofisan
Published: October 31, 2007
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You can’t blow stuff up and have car chases or these other things, so we’re focused on what’s happening with the character, which almost in a way gives you a Quentin Tarantino feel because its this realism that’s coming out. Its real. You’re sitting down with two characters talking for ten minutes in a row, that’s real... Read More...
'I Started Nollywood’ — Muyideen Alade AromireBy Wole Ajayi
Published: October 31, 2007
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Let me tell you, if you can write it properly, Kenneth Nnebue had produced over 40 Yoruba movies before he even thought of producing an Igbo movie. Living In Bondage is an Igbo movie. It is an Igbo language movie. Probably they want to claim that Living In Bondage is the first Igbo movie. Before he dreamt of making that film, he had produced 40 Yoruba films... Read More...
It is difficult to ignore Nollywood —Onookome OkomeBy Ezechi Onyerionwu
Published: October 22, 2007
Print Nollywood is a “speech.” It's mode of discourse, albeit a popular mode of discourse that has its own regime of social meaning that we must pay attention to. I am not sure a lot of us have even begun contemplating this...
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In Any Good Movie, the Camera Should Tell the Story - Femi ShakaBy Ezechi Onyerionwu
Published: September 17, 2007
Print "I have trained over eight Master's students. When they graduate, I hope to build the foundation of the first real Department of Film Studies in Africa around them. Forget about some of these private institutions who claim that they have departments of film. We know ourselves..."
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We’ll not marginalize marketers – Emeka MbaBy Sola Balogun
Published: April 28, 2007
Print Against the growing fear by movie marketers that the just inaugurated distribution framework by the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) would wipe them off the market, Mr. Emeka Mba, Director General of the board, has said that the scheme was not meant to witch-hunt anybody but to set standards in the sector...
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