Phone Swap by Kunle Afolayan Kunle Afolyan, a Nigerian filmmaker acknowledged when I interviewed him in Paris that his “objective has been to maintain the African culture and mainly to use his films to document and present who we are.” According to him, “Nigeria is such a complex country where you have more than 200 …
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And finally to one question asked about the quantitative value of his festival from 2013 to 2017, Serge Noukoue answered: “If we add up all the tickets sold since the festival started in 2013 we must be close to 10 000. And I think we could have done better if only we had had more …
Early 2017, I sent a list of questions to Director Serge Noukoue with regard to the reception of films in Nigerian languages. In the following short extract, we will see some of the features he associated with Nigerian films during his festival in Paris.The two movies he programmed being “Taxi Driver, Oko Ashawo” and “Phone …
Another approach is to watch free Nigerian films on the Internet dubbed in French language and others subtitled in English. On a local poll I conducted among people around me, and they were asked why they watch Nigerian films. One of them Leoplold from Cameroun says that “In Nollywood, I see family problems, the relationship …
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The reception of films shown by Nollywood TV in France to bridge what François Thiellet described as “language barrier” did not meet the expectation of the viewers because the “cultural dialogue” should have matched with the context and intonation of African voices they were trying to portray on the screen. These Nigerian films dubbed with …
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Alongside with other initiatives, excerpts of interviews that follow here focus on the penetration of Nollywood films in France after seven years of the “Nigerian Cultural week” in Paris; but it is helpful to highlight some of the significant claims that have been made in the reception of films in Nigerian languages in France. In …
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There is a widely shared study that the penetration of Nigerian films, known as Nollywood, in France started gradually with the distribution of Nigerian DVDs in places like Chateau Rouge (African market in Paris), followed by the advent of the new information technologies like the Internet which gave people access to watch any type of …
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