Thousands of Nollywood filmmakers including directors, actors and down the chain of production have nowhere to sell their movies which eventually will finish up in their drawers. You use your own money or raise money to shoot that nice story that no distributors out there will acquire or program in a cinema hall is the …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezRFX1hkX0I “We won! BlackMail won the 2021 Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Film by an African Abroad. Thank God. Thank you, my people- cast, crew, investors and supporters. We rise…together” That was Obi Emelonye after he won the 2021 Africa Movie Academy Award. I met obi in 2013 during the Nollywood Week Paris film …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od135bIjBz0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7YW1xOPgrA The best of Nollywood movies will be screened in the city of Marseille France on the 4th of December 2021. The people of Marseille will discover two Nigerian short movies on the program: Gone Too Far and The Delivery Boy. Don’t miss it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKk2Fk8UHOc Our primary mission is to bring Nollywood to schools and universities in Europe. We have therefore created “FILM FOR STUDENTS WEEK” for students who are studying cinema and would like to take the Nigerian film industry as an option. Others might like to discover Africa and precisely Nigeria through films by filmmakers from this …
Within the overarching narrative of Nollywood in the age of mobile devices, (Chapter 7) has also engaged directly with the claim that Stakeholders in the Nollywood industry from the smallest to the most prosperous one must adjust to the internet trend or die, involving a shift from the “Digital Terrestial Television”, a new technological innovation …
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My story has been one of profound insight into the Nollywood “Money Making Machine”. Nollywood: The Billion Dollars Money Zone shows the scramble for the “Nollywood Cake” by Africans in the Diaspora and Nigerians. It laid also much emphasis on the name NOLLYWOOD which has become across the globe the brand name to market African …
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I began this book by asking the monetary worth of Nollywood industry and how we can quantify the market – in order words who are the lion shareholders. Who are the winners and losers? The following questions were explored by examining some key issues in the Nollywood industry and how they relate to the “mainstream …
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By Cyprian Josson Hoorah Nollywood, some would shout and raise their champagne cups to celebrate the investments of multinational companies in the Nollywood industry. But it all started with the movie “LIVING IN BONDAGE”. Since the emergence of Nollywood in the early 1990s, it has had a profound influence on African culture: the languages of …
Every child has a dream to become something but at one point in the life of that child, the dream and fresh ideas can be influenced by different factors. In a fast-growing world where many children and teenagers have become addicted to the new information technologies: the internet, iPhone and social Media, African parents living …
Does it take a “village to raise a child” in a globalizing world?
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Atongo is a house boy who drinks his Boss’ wine with impunity then adds water to cover his tracks. His Boss became suspicious & decided to buy pasties (a French wine that changes color if u add water; just like dettol). Unaware of this, atongo, drank from the wine as usual & topped it up …