but just think of good movies alone. 1000 think about something that one will hear from the good guys who are looked at and i got in this world by them the person if he has on the movies you and i one is involved you most want to see that 1st. book or the show. christianity is also a strong source of inspiration for michael lisa he often develops ideas based on compelling stories from the old testament financing for protection he does a giant here and there's a small defeat here on earth and i was told ok everybody would love he did there's a put i'm going to be i'm going to do the job so when you just make david just go to giant. and kid you know most of you i love the gent too. but

with a. good well a good is what is good the let me get is what this is film people watch that we have the talk the view abuse. so sometimes i'll be at the back and see people doing this in my film i think it's a good. on occasionally so also appears as an actor in his own films. the sheena rambo series has released 18 video c.d.'s and many of them have sold over a 1000000 copies all across africa. the producer has the means to achieve high audio visual quality but his business sense tells him not to. once you put if you. the quality reduces this is the sin it is the quality you know what

i'm talking about so any fear of the soft sort you cannot be a proud my picture is too good so what the essence of suffering whereas we're nobody we give attention to we. understand so is about with the prince i coalition has tried switching to d.v.d. but each time he failed the problem is the rampant piracy at a labor market we find ourselves in the web of this piracy challenge we now find out that for us added money enough in these criminals deprive disparity between one and the pirates are given pirates more power to sell more because here people care about what is cheap. the nigerian police have just confiscated pirate copies worth over $100000.00 u.s. dollars. in order to survive in the face of piracy the filmmakers need to keep

their costs as low as possible. the city of a somber and down to state in the south west of the country provides the ideal infrastructure. a small village on the outskirts of town has served as a backdrop for countless films. like sleep sleep let's go. read. more about what i want my family down here out there what well. you know. in nigeria at this time the film is called an epic movie it is a highly successful genre that enables nollywood to construct its own version of africa's pre-colonial past. the title of the

movies i did some of this on. is actually. an african tell. about their community. received a bio on by the c.g. all evil men evil money you can not talk to spawn because paula from the song. you record on you want to go to doctors you do some of this song and soft cd is what you find out if you really wish for them home price shop just hope c. several of the actors on science are actually evangelical pastors i mean plus the one my church knows that they become not stop me from octon because i believe i'm

using that octon to preach something to the people so. ok that's good as good as without book we're going to look at why are people this is africa before they come in on the white my we have a life we have we have cultural we have religion what we have what keeps the site it's a good thing that's what we have succeeded in the exports into the war outside abagnale world. the notion of a purely african world before the arrival of the europeans holds great fascination for nollywood audiences. the costumes on plants are inspired by the producers imagination more than research but historic and accuracy is don't take away from the success of these films. mercy johnson is undoubtedly one of knowledge world's biggest superstars we bring africa as a cultural to the stable of millions of storytelling picture.

that you just. want to. bring into into centrally our language essentially dressed. as a people you know that's what nollywood stands for one. director ken steve a newcomer has been in the business for many years he stopped counting his films a long time ago. you can go out. which. is on average of 2 weeks be a movie so i'm hoping to round up this one then harvey to be a rest stop on the telly yeah let's go see rowsley i have to

be frank about it he puts me on buying things for a girl he goes well if you were there you would like time would you give in a period of time to see could you joke and you all suck says the depends on the how well you do it would be to give in to particle law for more time you were given to deliver their oh yeah oh oh i don't drive oh yeah i'm going to drive forward here. solomon a patent is one of the most influential film producers and a samba. are for this you on. the other while if you want. he's come to the center and show all that shooting bull rap today that he will do just as there will be in the long run you don't usually hear like the movie you know the. truth and the will of god that was the model for want that will always

fall on the face demanded by the bake stars take the biggest chunk out of nollywood film budgets if nancy johnson goes a single day over a shuttle the financial viability of the entire project is jeopardized. lose a raffle them on your left on. your left go running. ok thank you. 7 for. this round of whining and video no man. 'd over the past 11 days the crew shot enough footage for a 4 hour film it will be divided into 6 parts and each one will be released as

a separate video cd this production style has made nollywood one of the biggest film industries in the world. unfortunately real improvements in the art of filmmaking are almost impossible but things have started to change as many nigerian filmmakers begin to break new ground. with a i got an interest in german expressionism new hollywood. i want that same appreciation. for the nigerian film industry people who have the intellectual discourse about the. album a camera sees film as art is feature length debut green white green from 2016

was screened at festivals around the world and streamed on netflix. the green why green is a coming of age story about 4 friends from the 3 major ethnic groups of nigeria how so you are by your book who go on an adventure to make a film inspired by nigeria's history. the script for the film within the film is based on a text by character called professor organ and the thoughts expressed in it reflects my karma's own analysis of the current political situation in nigeria. having seemingly moved on from over 3 decades of merry go round military rule we stand now with the 3rd regime of the 3rd democrat. republic we find ourselves still uncertain when will the scourge of boko haram be brought to an end how can we curb the mass production crippling our country can we truly eradicate poverty when will

we become an export based economy nigeria worth will it what it was we're ready to speak so that we can quit importing bloody toothpicks i mean who imports toothpicks . among other things become a criticizes nigeria's heavy reliance on imports something that also applies to sophisticated films. with green white green the young filmmaker has shown that it is possible to turn the tables. we have an added cinematic with and on the continent you know and that's just what we're good at a real cinematic movement that. will stand the test of time to make an imprint in global cinema you know. has attracted attention he received state funding for his film benefiting from the fact that the

government has identified the industry as a key sector of the economy. in 2008 tough to realizing the business potential in his native country. left his job but odeon cinemas in the u.k. once home he helped found the company film house which developed 9 multiplex cinema we now want to do a home video 5 soon as a 3 and a half years from now. so. if it's aggressive it's ambitious but it's possible. the new sin amounts are just one component and part of his grand scheme. so welcome to film how cinemas. ok so we go to the next floor. to see that building there the green building there. that's that house of don't go to the rich or the black man in the world clearly the rich africa so we like this office because something is when the

wind blows from the side yeah blows through him and then touches us if we like. and here it's been one production and distribution. ok this is not just the fastest growing but the biggest film theatrical film distribution company of nigeria in west africa really was about to appear that executive director of a film poster born in the uk 3 years ago the stupid remote to the individual books of the science was of one mind made to be followed and 10 be this year to go $64.00 and that's where we will see a complete flip between hollywood and nollywood else we'll see a complete flip it i double dare say will 734000000 and it's the only english english speaking so that i know of the war. the local films are scrooge.

as movie ticket sales go up. and the demand for local productions increases and brand new market for high quality films is evolving. film house film one does not only want to scream these films. but we definitely produce films we have produced albeit as part of a core production the wedding party the biggest film ever in west africa in cinema anyway because for. the wedding party released in 2016 was the 1st nigerian film to more than a 1000000 u.s. dollars at the box office. but even new nollywood biggest blockbuster only reached a certain section of the population. when you look at the demographics of the place it's really from here to the top from the middle to the top we haven't reached those guys down there and. the huge population this spend

a lot of money but small volume you know small denominations was huge part of you know so we are looking to go target those guys give them the entertainment they want. power wants to reach the masses starting in the poorer districts of lagos he envisages cinemas which sell tickets for about $1.00 and screen films produced by his own company. is a formula and its work is what we did meet with brittany morefield says hold on the next because we're working. think of this as the professionalization of nollywood and that's your points like. the joint you're . from the u.k. . before film one brought him back to his home country donna.

well in television in the u.k. in nigeria he now wants to realize can own power insufficient discounts for promising script rewrites them to fit commercially successful formulas and in some productions he also sets in the director is check the market will continue to grow and that's what we're gong to be known. starting to know is on steven spielberg's and all those guys of nigeria. ok guys thank you guys right i need you outside now jim when i think of the camera last last i want to do when you. dream where you were going to do waiting outside. yes thank you i watch.

this nollywood this is the way we do it and. i call it the good guys that did it didn't. we if it's a problem with the about me it is enough to just focus again and there's a joke in nigeria that if you know if you can find someone to get married to your family are you off to somebody. thank you thank god since the success of the wedding party in new nollywood has been producing one romantic comedy after another featuring a huge wedding ceremony the film's a wildly successful in nigeria. but the movies are not made specifically for the local market that meant to showcase the nigerian lifestyle and sense of spirit want at the same time telling stories that touch the hearts of

people all around the well we need to start telling universal story. yes or no you would need somebody down if you have to watch your film and understand your plight somebody in japan somebody in china that's storytelling that's the way we used to go because when i was growing up i wanted to be a japanese i wanted to be an american i wanted to be british is i think everybody toward want to be nigerian and that's why i'm making films. cinema culture which almost died out during a particularly tough period for nigeria's economy in the 1980 s. is experiencing a revival it's creating a promising market for technically sophisticated films but so far new nollywood has relied almost exclusively on rehashing successful formulas and allows little scope for new ideas real creative innovation might as a result 1st emerge in a different medium the internet is an inexpensive global distribution platform german investor bastion daughter was among the 1st to capitalize on this

opportunity. iscar ours have in india and in quite a lot of africans outside of nigeria like to watch nollywood films normally would. and that's how it got started and funks put in. iraq is the name of the company that developed talent of distributing market films on you tube culture uku experienced a sudden turn of fortune when they were contacted by a representative of a venture capital firm named tycho global. to contact. in september 2011 the guy arrived in la goes. back then not many people came to la goes to invest in internet businesses. so i told the guy sort of small american. he said carna boys show me your office boys show me off yeah.

we said ok let's go to the market. we had our office there. it was a 10 square metre room with 16 employees all crammed into a. defense. he said interesting show me your numbers. so we did we were pretty proud of the numbers. we were clearing about $30000.00 profit a month. this is interest of things over and said this is interesting we talked for about 45 minutes and then he said ok i'll give you a term sheet. we didn't even know what a term sheet was ok that's the ask we found out that it is the 1st step towards a concrete investment the next day he sent the term sheet which valued our company at 9000000. and that was just incredible. as video there we were

making about $30000.00 a month and that was ok but then this american comes along and says your company is worth $9000000.00 make something of it he said here is 9000000 take another 3 in cash. and suddenly the whole thing is worth $12000000.00 all right great let's do it. one there. with that kind of money the partners were able to set up one of nigeria's most successful media enterprises today iraq and gets most of its income from t.v. channels in various african countries as well as in france and england nevertheless the company is betting its future on online streaming on iraq goes video on demand platform users can access around $3000.00 films according to company figures the site reaches 100000 subscribers divided more or less equally between africa the americas and europe. the worldwide audience gets to see

a side of africa fundamentally different from the crisis and disaster written continent shown by western media. hiroko no longer buys its content ready made but has its films produced exclusively for the company at least 3 per week with a budget of around $10000.00 u.s. dollars each. with. daniel emeka already artie is shooting his 8th film for iraq on t.v. the director learnt his craft at the nigerian film school. he produces most of his movies in collaboration with his wife grace a goof who takes on more than one job on sat for production of their next film they have traveled to a village. for my girls the title of the

current production is based on true events it tells the story of a girl from a village played by a drama who dreams of a better life in the big city. an alleged friend takes advantage of inexperience and lured her into a trap he turns or over to a criminal organization that uses girls for its dirty dealings. the 90 minute feature length film has to be shot in 7 days. we like these kind of challenges we like to be different so with this plates and knowing that the money was not going to cover we had then we'd at ok well who were going to deep helpful to the family coffers to make this work. is almost for the whole 3 minutes missing although. we're off to start doing.

a couple has to. cope with a tight budget similar to those of the film crews in a samba band their approach to film is more sophisticated they take a closer look at the reality of life around. you. seem to have a bunch of folks who. don't. you know and i think you're going to knock on something more but not for the fact that what we do with. first half we come for you but i. want you to. come on that's how we are so i don't think you should be any different in the. polls that well do you think you know the more you are looking for stuff like a good. point so you know i mean this young guy.

just in my dumb how do you know what do you call for this one to be 5. what we. have so that's we've. been out there you know. there was a rare and. yeah. that luann a. little. lonely when he's at that phase where you become mean structure is becoming organized is becoming you know dissing methods to the madness. i think i was but. let. me on this then the storytelling for what it is when the funny when let mean

audience cultural and ordains behavior pattern in a plane that you know we have it was going to film school is the new how to hold a command me and how to direct a living act in many different departments in filmmaking people are now going to when their skills and when all of these come back and you know and these are play gets to that place where we have best structured back in the hollywood have what do we have to look at yes we do we have people we call him what we produce yes we do and that's all you need for an industry to be. like you can't go back. but you go. this is this is how you want your. nollywood has been built by people from the heart of nigerian society who know instinctively what moves

audiences in that country why don't. they have created an industry that doesn't care much about rules some laws which is its greatest strength and weakness at present time new nollywood is counting on professionalism and is driven by the economic interests of international investors a purely capitalist venture and yet the development is opening doors for the next generation of nigerian filmmakers now graduating from film academies it is up to them to take advantage of the new distribution channels create movies with artistic vision and initiate a cinematic movement in africa. for a long time films that shape the world's image of africa were largely made by europeans and americans nollywood constitutes. powerful counter-weight the pictures it produces may have distortions of their own about as african self portrays they add an essential new dimension to the global flood of images of vast provides

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this is due to every news live from berlin the post breaks the trade deal is signed into u.k. diddled britain and the european union set the seal on the drawn out divorce just hours before the u.k. cost all call for a century of ties with the continent also coming up. did he explosions ripped through yemen's asian airports the lightly tall dish a plane carrying the country's newly formed. the countdown is on people around the globe gear up to usher out of tumultuous year

but with many countries still in the grip of covert 19 restrictions the policy will be a lot more subdued this year. that got cultural creative pauses and institutions failed new heights to keep their crops alive during the pandemic. hello i'm kristie want to welcome to the program later today the united kingdom will leave the e.u. customs union and single markets bringing to a final end its membership of the european union the u.k. will bend trade goods with the 27 members of a bloc and the new treaty agreed last week with brussels british prime minister boris johnson signed the treaty and is now part of british rule when the u.k. completes its transition phase at midnight central european time it will draw the

person down almost 5 decades of membership off the e.u. . let's have a look at some of the changes that come into force when britain exits the e.u. customs union and single market is british and e.u. citizens will have to apply for a visa if they want to work in each other's us territory or live there for longer than 90 days whereas in one. tariff and course had free access to the single market and it got it but there is now a mechanism where terrorists could be imposed by the e.u. in the future if the u.k. diverges from standards northern ireland remains part of the e.u. single law case and customs union so goods and animals entering bear from the rest of the u.k. will be subject to checks and paperwork and i'm now joined by clinton peel he's associate fellow for a bit with the european president at chatham house he's joining us from london good to see you quentin so do british people think they got

a good deal. now or they did to be the latest opinion poll that i've seen says that only 17 percent of the british people think it's a good deal something like 21 percent think it's a bad deal and found that most people either think they don't know all they just don't i think there is a real exhaustion about its own process with the british people even though they don't think it's a good deal rather more than half of them wanted it to be approved nonetheless clinton the prime minister boris johnson say that the u.k. were a main part neck with the e.u. its best ally a think he said would be the best of friends at some point what kind of relationship is this going to be. i think it's going to be pretty bumpy at least for the beginning until until this whole thing settles down. it's been

a fairly poisonous negotiating process for the last 9 months and before that most of the people in various johnson's government have a track record of saying very rude things about the european union so i don't think it is going to be easy there's an awful lot that remains still to be done this deal deals with goods trade and says ok they'll be tariff and quota 3 there's practically nothing in that about services trade which is far more important to britain so there's an enormous amount actually still to be organized. so it makes its aid to the growing independence movement in scotland how can say and people in britain about this. i think that's going to become the biggest you now is just will the united kingdom hold together as a union having left the european union the scottish people voted very

clearly well over 60 percent to remain in the european union and now the scottish national party which voted absolutely clearly yesterday against this deal they're going to win i'm pretty certain the next elections in scotland and demand another referendum boris johnson is going to try and resist it so that's one pressure on the union but the other one is in northern ireland because as you said in your introduction there's going to be a new effective border between northern ireland and the rest of britain nor the ballot is in future going to be in many ways closer to the republic of ireland than it is to the rest of the united kingdom and that's why i think he's going to raise a lot of new tensions there as well right that's clinton pale state of chatham house in london thank you. let's take a look at some of the international stories hong kong media tycoon and democracy

advocate jimmy life has been ordered back to jail after the city's highest court sided with a request to deny him bail lie was granted bail by a lower court last week he is one of the highest profile figures charged and the a new security will imposed by beijing in june. in the u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has blocked a vote on whether to boost covert 1000 but if checks to americans the move defies president donald trump score to raise the amount from 600 to 2 $1000.00 the proposal to increase a cost with a bipartisan majority in the house. now at least 22 people have been killed and dozens wounded in an attack at aden international airport in yemen the blast went off just as members of the government returned from saudi arabia so far no group has claimed responsibility of the original blast was followed by a nother explosion near the presidential palace several hours later. it was meant

to be a moment to celebrate. the newly formed power sharing cabinet disembarking u.a.e. backed southern separatists joining forces with the saudi backed internationally recognized government but then. several explosions rocked the airport authorities say a volley of ballistic missiles were fired by the unity government common rival iran back to the rebels witnesses described hearing sporadic gunfire soon after. hours later another explosion was reported near the presidential palace in aden. and that this was a cowardly terrorist attack. the government is an agent to stay with me and to exercise its duties and operations with the strong will of our people lewd. acts of terror will not stop forces from doing our work.

the good will of. the ministers have all been reported safe after the attack. they were returning from the saudi capital where they had been sworn in as part of the new power sharing agreement the 2 science have forged what's been called a civil war within a civil war but after months of armed conflict a peace deal was implemented and focus was redirected on a joint front against the who thieves who sees the country's capital sanaa in 2014 plunging the country into an ongoing civil war. while no one has claimed responsibility for the attack at aden a force of blame house fallen on the iran backed rebels his power in yemen is threatened by the new government alliance. air berlin chancellor angela merkel has called on germans to help if the pandemic by sticking to the rules in the weeks and months ahead in her final need is addressed michael's if that germany faced hard

times but that there was hope inside now that vaccinations have started she say 2020 had been the most challenging year of her decade in the hof as chancellor and that the country had never longed for a new year the way it is now method is to to step down before the next election in september. to a year defined by coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns people around the world are eager to show 2020 the dole preparations are underway to ring in the new guinea but it's evidence integrations will be a lot more new to it this evening. praying for good fortune these shamans in peru made offerings for a healthy 2021 the ritual is an annual tradition and one that is a particularly important this year. for our. back time square in new york city preparations are underway for another important

tradition for more than a century people have flocked to the city that never sleeps on new year's eve this year will be quite different times square will be closed to the public as the countdown to 2021 goes virtual. you know you will see less people here in times square we're going to have more hope than ever because we cannot wait for 2021 the light is at the end of the tunnel and we are we are filled with art the. celebrations will also be subdued across the atlantic in germany after the government banned the sale of fireworks. even though existing stockpiles can still be lit some are looking forward to the prospect of a quieter new year's eve. suzumiya fire and lighting the fire crackers i never liked them so i'm not very sad about it doesn't exist and it's understandable that you can sit down together and have

a drink drink 3 i'm not opposed to it british this is better that way but those are all now the famous concert halls used to playing to sold out crowds will be performing without audiences this new year's eve. the show will go on virtually as people look forward to a fresh start. virtual performances on nothing new for the arts and culture sector which has been left reeling bike over $1000.00 as shot a venue has deprived them of the audiences this year artists and institutions found innovative ways to stay creative and connected. to haiti leading the celebration in the middle of a pandemic sure if you go digital musicians from around the world went online to shoot to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer from beethoven. museums like denmark's national gallery found a way around corona by offering 3 d.

virtual tours. performers took to social media after patrick stewart cited shakespeare sonnets see. the pianist go live and live. up to that peter's an opera house like those here in new york stream the performances around the world. cup's the 2 who are found new safer locations departing. like this king on a berlin church rooftop. musicians found a way to drezner symphonic orchestra performed on the roof of an apartment block. held picnics performances with socially distance blankets and the music through headphones. there were even super exclusive concerts with

a single musician and an audience 6 of one. of ours didn't stop the salzburg festival which went ahead as planned albeit with fewer people social distancing and new safety measures. this would have been ashamed of our timidness had we cancelled the festival this year because our festival was founded in much more difficult times shortly after the 1st world war when there was great hunger and need. during her own of the berlin state opera held massive open their concerts for free. i can't wait to share this great music again records are all well and good streaming is quite nice because sitting in peru you can be part of the live experience of being the lie. this year thousands of publishers from around the world came together online for digital editions of the frankfurt book fair it was the 1st such literary event of

its kind but everyone hopes it will also be the last. and you have to date here on news i'm christine was signing off for 2020 it's been good to have your company on this and all other programs this year i wish you a safe healthy and happy new year before we go we've got some pictures we want to show you of a new year's festival in scotland with a stunning drawing display the sky is.

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