Showing posts with label 20 years of Nollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 20 years of Nollywood. Show all posts

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Nollywood: 20 Years After


Twenty years after its birth in a video shop in Lagos, Nigeria's  "Nollywood" is one of the most prolific film industries on earth. Despite low budgets and whirlwind production schedules, Nigerian films are wildly popular in Africa and industry professionals say they hope, in the future, their films will be as great in quality as they are in quantity.

As a generator hums on the roof, Director F. Olu Michaels shoots his 14th episode of Remember Me, a soap opera about a girl with magical powers.