How Nollywood lost N500m to pirates –Adebambo Adewopo
By Sola Balogun
Published: November 24, 2007
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The motion picture industry in Nigeria, otherwise known as Nollywood, may have lost well over N500 million to pirates of movies and musical works alike. This is besides the fact that 75 percent of entertainment products have been subjected to piracy in the out-going year.... Read More...



Video professionals benefit as CEDAR Broadcast warehouse concludes training workshop
By Fred Iwenjora
Published: November 24, 2007
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Alfred Okoro is a young Nigerian charged by the belief that Nigeria should progress at far more speed than it is moving. And in his area of specialty, film and broadcast equipment and its ancillary issues, Okoro with his company CEDAR Broadcast Warehouse, Ltd recently facilitated a free 3- day exhibition and training on the latest broadcast technologies around the world... Read More...



Why we must tell our stories – Filmmakers, scholars
By Femi Salawu
Published: November 10, 2007
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The African Video Film Arts Festival was designed as a forum for bringing together filmmakers, critics and academics from different countries in Africa to showcase their films and also to subject such films to academic rigour with the intent of providing a theoretical base for the African video film as an art form. Read More...



How Nigerian Movies are being shown free of charge online
By Fred Iwenjora
Published: October 28, 2007
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The Nigerian movie industry as the third largest and fastest growing movie industry in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood will soon be a thing of the past considering the latest discovery that a website operated by a certain Devace Nigeria, an arm of Devace Inc. USA and indeed several other websites show the latest Nollywood films free of charge even before their release in Nigeria to those who want to watch them... Read More...



How to get movies into every home – Emeka Mba
By Sola Balogun
Published: August 3, 2007
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The business of film and video can hardly succeed without effective distribution network, since a movie never truly succeeds until as many people as possible watch it... Read More...



The Impact Of Video Halls “Bibanda” In Uganda
By Bamuturaki Musinguzi
Published: July 22, 2007
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 Ugandans are willing to pay more money to watch local, East African or Nigerian productions than the blockbusters of Hollywood and Bollywood... Read More...



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