Getting Your Movie Rated in NigeriaBy Tide News
Published: November 18, 2006
Print All films, whether local or imported have to be censored and classified before they can be sold, hired or publicly exhibited in Nigeria. If the film is only to be shown for a limited time or period at a film festival or at a theatre, it may be eligible for an exception...
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Let’s Talk NollywoodBy Joy Bewaji (ThisDay)
Published: October 1, 2006
Print The Nigerian audience is a very intelligent one, and we are so sick of watching predictable movies. We do understand that the sophistication of the international film industry eludes us, but I am sure a simple, sensible, and accurately delivered drama would have the whole world clapping...
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After Hollywood and Bollywood, Kenya has "Riverwood"By Yahoo/Reuters
Published: July 30, 2006
Print Across Africa, the advent of digital technology has made it easier for film makers to produce movies -- digital cameras are cheaper and the film can be stored on computer hard drives, edited and distributed for a fraction of the costs involved with traditional 35 mm prints...
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Nollywood: Battling Its BaggageBy Sylvester Asoya & Michael Mukwuzi
Published: May 30, 2006
Print The story of what is today known as Nollywood had its roots in the early 1990s when Kenneth Nebo’s NEK Video Link came up with Living in Bondage...
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Nollywood, Our NollywoodBy Ogonna Obiora (oobiora@gmail.com)
Published: February 1, 2006
Print Foreign donors will not permit Nollywood to tell our stories in our own way just as francophone African film has to fit within the paradigms and parameters of European film to attract French funding...
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Speech for ActorsBy Lari Williams
Published: September 23, 2005
Print Our films should exhibit our fashion, propagate our culture and inform the rest of the world about us. Well, with the number of Home Video Cassettes churned out we must have made enough attempts in the direction. Money can only be made if our viewing circles get wider and a lot more cassettes are sold...
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