“I don’t want to just entertain – I want to hit the very soul of the viewers,” says Majid Michel in the interview posted below, made by Erawoc Bros Group and Digiglobal Media. Michel, the recipient of Nollywood & African Film Critics Award for Best Actor in 2011 as well as the African Movie Academy… Read more »
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Love Nollywood? Stream It
Innovation – in filmmaking, storytelling – has long been a marker of Nollywood. Innovation has long marked distribution channels as well, and the layered conversation about the line between piracy, copyright law, and fulfilling public demand gets complicated. Perhaps we’re closer to a solution to Nollywood’s 50 percent losses to piracy now with the rise… Read more »
'Deadly and Brutal' Film Posters from Ghana on View at The International Design Museum Munich
MUNICH.- Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich presents ‘Deadly and Brutal’ film posters from Ghana, on view until June 26, 2011. Graphic design from West Africa: Ever since the 1980s, hand-painted posters have advertised Nollywood and locally-made action movies or family dramas in Ghana, not to mention the Hollywood blockbusters and martial… Read more »
Nigeria's Nollywood eclipsing Hollywood in Africa
“As cinemas close across Africa, homegrown blockbusters are actually eclipsing Hollywood on the African market as for the first time in 13 years an African feature competes for the top award at Cannes.” The Independent (UK) 05/16/10 Click here to read the entire article