(Entertainment Express)--"This is definitely a cheering news for all lovers of the Nigerian motion picture industry globally known as Nollywood. Recently, the prestigious and famously revered London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom, proudly screened its first ever Nollywood movie,
Ije: The Journey...to its multiracial students and stakeholders."
"The Nollywood-Los Angeles collaboration, produced and directed by youthful Chineze Anyaene, a multiple-award winning filmmaker, was shown at the Global Media and Communications post-graduate program's weekly interaction. The duo of Omotola Jolade-Ekeinde and Genevieve Nnaji are the lead acts in the pulsating and suspense-filled flick. The diverse audience in attendance at the event in the Graham Wallace Room, spanned four continents (Africa, Asia, Europe and North America). Also in attendance was the Program Director, Prof. Terhi Rantanen.
"At the post-screening discussion afterwards, the viewers, most of whom were encountering Nollywood for the first time, offered pointed and critical reviews of the film. They discussed its framing of contemporary socio-cultural issues of transnational migration, legal justice, gender representation, identity, stereotypes and family, among others. Some expressed
