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. lagos nigeria home of africa's biggest film industry. in terms of production output it's considered the 2nd largest in the hours after india bought ahead of hollywood. a new york times article published in 2002 coins the industry's popular name. nollywood became popular through a certain type of film shot with digital cameras telling stories based on the dreams and fears of nigerian society distributed in bulk on street markets. over what to do over 60 movies come out in the markets today a new nollywood is

a magic it generates an annual turnover of over $500000000.00 u.s. dollars and produces the superstars of the african continent going for a new outfit as a result i think. with glitz and glamour of the industry out shines its humble origins in an ordinary electronics market we started this business we outsourced them in this business to get in the market and looking in the. street vendors continue to lay claim to nollywood a new breed of investor has entered the business. for the last we were earning around $30000.00 a month that was totally ok and then this american comes along and says your business is worth $9000000.00 make something of it it's an industry on steroids and make up that type. of thing in the entertainment was huge isn't don't go out to what is what it was a jungle america it was

a don't win china because they don't win in india will be coming up in may he's becoming you hear this in methods to the madness our girl go out there to compete in the world stage that's when all the wood is going. the industry was born here in lagos. the african metropolis has a population of over 14000000. it's

a city that promises much but demands even more. lagos rolls over a series of islands all connected to the mainland by a network of concrete bridges. urban development can't keep up with its exploding population. all over not only. around 2 thirds of lagos younes live in slum areas like here in the cocoa a community built on stilts between lagos island and the mainland.

and the economy depends on trade through lagos is industrial parts. crude oil is nigeria's economic lifeblood it accounts for much of its federal revenues. and deny jungleland. they have been telling us right from when the danger to main to the newest oil money for the country they want to focus on entertainment because they know that they can rely heavily on oil revenue and in this revenue that they can where they can get money for me from the the dominion those magically fulfill. culture journalist who sign it has been reporting on nollywood for over 20 years he's particularly interested in the generation that started the business you need to know your past to know where you're headed in the future you need to know those realty foundation what with their visions what were they trying to prove what we're

doing things that they wanted to achieve you know with the industry. a film released in 1992 marks the birth of nollywood. was a significant drop in the whole mix of films that were made at that time. it tells the story of andy an unemployed man whose deaths drive him to despair. he meets an old friend there introduces him told while the luxury. and his desire to join the club of the rich and beautiful draws him into an occult brotherhood. the price of membership is high.

and he is confronted with a moral issue. in the end he chooses the money over his wife. shortly after her death and the now rich marries another woman. despite the material comfort and his life takes a turn for the last. man

. his wife's ghost returns to haunt and terrorize him and he eventually goes insane. the only source of hope left for andy is jesus christ. living in bondage to find one of the most important nollywood chartreuse the get rich quick film it's narrative structure has a strong message of christian faith which remains a standard element of nigerian films today. oh. 000-000-0000 yeah. oh yeah. the movie about andy's rise and fall became a commercial hit sold as a v.h.s. tape in street markets. today the hub of this distribution system is located in an electronics market in the western part of lagos. these 2 men belong to

a task force of the market traders association a kind of substitute police force that patrols the vast labyrinth of a lover market. nollywood occupies its own section of the market. and production and distribution of the films are managed by this. same people i'm off to trade is also normally would movie producer spot. the associations chairman is samuel emeka doing otherwise known as a magnetic link was on the production will get on this market or into my 3 percent i'll be content off that i made up mother would. that imply gandolfo lover more so for us you know about we started this business we outsourced any business to human beings and this guy is in the days of those who thought of.

these songs too much money says anyway i know this song knocking was shot from and on that led to the reforms in the last 60 movie spamalot in the markets just like they did the business used in limbs oh movies yes i do wonder bob you refused to give. me a long long breath you know more fragmented things like it's i was on too long read it our own 500 titles were news every yeah yeah. that. is the most important but not the only market for self produced films in nigeria the total number of films produced in nigeria is a long time. so we need 3 boards off from all of bodies to score so that is why it is the operative block you send it out off it was. quite some time this was the only method of

distribution. but that changed in 2010 when 2 men with a bold business idea arrived in lagos. one of them was german investor boston gotten. it since a man. this man out of a market the 1st time i was in the a lot of market there were many white people there everyone looks at you as if to say what are you doing here. since i went up to one of the nollywood guys selling video c.d.'s there was a small market booth everyone was hot and sweating. his english wasn't easy for me to understand. because i said i wanted to buy the rights for some of his films but i didn't know if he really owned the rise sheerly he is it was hard for me to figure out what was going on i hadn't spent much time in nigeria it was still unfamiliar to me but i trust this guy or not i didn't have such

a clear feeling but i thought no fun. the initiative behind the venture came from a friend of. jason a british citizen with nigerian roots who had the idea to distribute nollywood films through you tube got to raise the initial capital on the london stock exchange after completing a degree in economics he worked as a derivatives trader for the oil company british petroleum and standish to say you know when things finally got going and we bought our 1st 100 films they were really cheap because people weren't so internet savvy at the time. we acquired $100.00 films for $10000.00 and put them online and we made $2000.00 a day. we thought wow. we're going to make a lot of dough in just 5 days we recovered our investment and thought let's buy more. when i was still working on the trading floor so i asked

a few of my buddies there if they were interested in getting into the film business in nigeria. but they said sure we're in. the not enough and we need to gather another $200000.00 and went on a serious shopping spree. for god so the movie is a just business initially he was surprised by the popularity. a sharp contrast to the producers. who know exactly why their films are so successful. oh. welcome welcome welcome welcome. as the producer of a wildly popular film. is the most successful film in the history of modeled yes in the history of the making in the in the market this is the most successful film. the movie is based on the legend of sheena rambo a criminal sent to have carried out a series of spectacular robberies in the 1990 s.

his name pays homage to the hollywood action classic starring sylvester stallone. is. with them part of this country and he does this mean because of the sham he has in him. you know. and believe in that bullet entered into his body. in the film supernatural powers come from a magical snake. normally what films often make use of the treasure of west african oral tradition. sound and moving images give new life to well known narratives and make them magic appear

. for you to make money you must think of but just think of good movies alone. i. think was the. one you hear from go get. my gosh. as well by them the person if he has on the movie and the one is involved he must want to see the 1st. part of. christianity is also a strong source of inspiration for michael isa he often develops ideas based on compelling stories from the old testament financing for church he does a giant here and there's a small defeat here on earth and i was told ok everybody would love it it was a put i'm going to be i'm going to do the job so well you just make to just go to

giant and do like me and kid you know most of you i love the giant do. you think i do. good what good is what is going to let me get is what this is film people watch that we have that block the view abuse. so sometimes i'll be at the back and see people doing this in my field i think yes i got it. 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. want to put if you. the quality reduces this is the the citizens quality you know what i'm talking about so any fear of this soft sort you cannot be a proud my picture is too good so why the absence of suffering where us where nobody will give attention to we that's in school or not you understand so is about with the prince i can alisa 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 heavy sea challenge when i'm fina that for us to be adding money enough in the screen loss deprived 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. when i. was little sleep let's go around it read. more about. what. your. art. 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 are some of the song. is actually. an african tell. about their community would be seized by on bad seasonal evil man evil monk you cannot practice for me because the poem for. the song. you've really got on your stockings in the song of this song is self seed is what you are find out if you really wish for the whole price shopping c.

several of the actors on sides are actually evangelical pastas me plus the one my church knows that they can become monks stop me from octon because i believe i'm using that octon to preach something to the people also. ok that's good i'm good i'm good i'll go quickly what it is 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 really enjoyed we have what kept society to get that thing that's what we have succeeded in exports into war outside i love another world. the notion of a purely african well before the arrival of the europeans holds great fascination for nollywood audiences. the costumes on plants are inspired by the producer's imagination more than research but historic an actor says 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 this table of millions of storytelling picture. so you just. join. into centrally our language and centrality our dressing centrally. as a people you know that's what nollywood stands for i want to live. director ken stephen has been in the business for many years he stopped counting his films a long time ago. you can start. which

. is on average of 2 weeks p. a movie so i'm hoping to rumble this one down hardly 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 vine there's virgil he goes well if you're there and you're like time you're given a period of time so you could enjoy it and you all suck says the depends on the how well you do it we didn't do given the particle of freedom of time we were given time to live up there oh yeah oh yeah that's right but yeah i'm going to throw it forward here. solomon a pet is one of the most influential film producers in the sabah. are sure of this you on. the other while if you want. he's come to the set to ensure that shooting will wrap up today in the world in the movie just as there

would be it was along the way you don't usually hear like the movie you know that he didn't get enough of the world and that he was the last one but he was always there in the face demanded by the big stars take the biggest chunk out of nollywood film budgets if not johnson goes a single day overshadow the financial viability of the entire project is jeopardized. and lose the raffle them when you are left. off all your let go running. ok thank you. there are. 20000 7 000 out there is removing one i mean you know man.

over the past 11 days the crew shelter 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 on. 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. green why green is a coming of age story about 4 friends from the 3 major ethnic groups of nigeria how so euer by ebor who go on an adventure to make a film inspired by men various history. the script for the film within the film is based on a text by character called professor organ and the thought is expressed and 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 democratic republic we find ourselves

still uncertain when will the scourge of boko haram be brought to an end how can we curb the mass collapse and crippling our country can we truly eradicate poverty when will we become an export based economy nigeria was really in what it was we're all ready to speak so that we can quit importing bloody toothpicks i mean who in. port's tooth picks. among other things a comma 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 idea cinematic movement 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 and make an imprint in global cinema you know. macam

a has attracted attention he received state funding for his film benefiting from the fact that the government has identified the industry as a key center of the economy in 2008 after 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 cinemas we now want to do a good 5 singles or 3 and a half years from here. you know so. its aggressive its ambition what is possible. when you cinema such just one component in grand business scheme. so welcome to film house and it was. ok so we got to the next floor. see that building there the great building

there. that's the house of the with 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 here blues through him and then touches us if we like. i don't hear it's thing 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 film power through one iraq war. 3 years ago the street was remodeled wooden in the middle box of this size with a violent magic bean followed and sent be this years ago this is the world and that's where we will see a complete flip between hollywood and bollywood we'll see a complete flip it what i double dare say will 1730 or more and it's the only

english english begin so that i know of the war that the local films are truth value. as movie ticket sales go up and the demand for local productions increases a brand new market for high quality films is evolving. film house film one does not only want to screen these films. but we definitely produce films we have produced albeit as part of a core production the wedding party the biggest dream ever in west africa in cinema anyway because for. the wedding party released in 2016 was the 1st nigerian film to earn 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 they constitute the huge population this spend a lot of money but small volumes you know small denominations but huge part of you know so we are looking to go target those guys keep them. attainment they want. power wants to reach the masses starting in the poorer districts of lagos he envisages cinemas which sound tickets for about $1.00 and screen films produced by his company. is a formula and its work is more from me the privilege more fields i'm also says within the next because i work you. think of this as the professionalization of nollywood and that's your points like. the

joints of my crew down the aisle from the states from japan on from the u.k. love all the time to. be from film one brought him back to his home country don't want in television in the u.k. in nigeria he now wants to realize can impair his vision discounts for promising scripts playwrights them to think commercially successful formulas and in some productions he also sits in a director's chair the market will continue to grow and that's what we're gong to be known as a talented nose and steven spielberg's and all those guys of nigeria. ok guys thank you come on guys lights and if you're outside no dream where did you become the last class i want to do when you. dream where you were going to do and waiting outside. yes thank you i watch.

this nollywood this is the way we do it and. i call it good stuff does that do this. there's a joke in nigeria that you don't want to give your family. new nollywood has been producing one romantic comedy after another huge wedding ceremony the film's a wildly successful in nigeria. but the movies are not made

specifically for the local market they're meant to showcase the nigerian lifestyle and sense of spirit while at the same time telling stories that touch the hearts of people all around the world but we need to start telling universal stories that's what normally 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 i think everybody toward want to be like yours and that's where 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. is god i always have hope for india and you go a lot of africans outside of nigeria like to watch nollywood films as not you would go. on that's when that's how iraq all got started and funks put in for you will iraq 0 is the name of the company that developed out of distributing a larger market films on you tube culture yoku experienced a sudden turn of fortune when they were contacted by a representative of a venture capital firm named tycho global. their company in infusing 10 bets 5 holes in september 2011 the guy arrived in largo's. back then not many people came to largo's to invest. internet businesses. i told the guy sort of small

american. 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 it. 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 intrigue look 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 this is the ask when 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 he did 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 $9000000.00 take another 3 in cash and suddenly the whole thing is worth $12000000.00 all right great let's do it. one yeah. with that kind of money the partners were able to set up one of 1000 most successful media enterprises today iraq 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. video on demand platform users can access around 3000 films according to company figures the site reaches 100. 1000 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 are he is shooting his 8th film for iraq o.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 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 an experience 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 day. we like these kinds of challenges we like to be different so with this creates and knowing that the money was not going to cover we had then we'd at ok well we're

going to deep helpful to the family coffers to make this work. is almost already 3 was missing the. mark to step in the way. the couple has to come. with a tight budget similar to those of the film crews in sabah about their approach to film is more sophisticated they take a closer look at the reality of life around. you. think of all members of folk who. don't. want to know. what to do with that's. done for you but i. want to tell you. how much that's how we are so i don't think we should be any different than the. calls that all the only thing you know. for

most of our stuff no. way i mean this. just in my dumb. to the far right. so that's with. the man. yeah yeah. yeah i am. good at a. little not. really what is at that phase where you become mean structure is becoming again mind is becoming you know this in methods to the madness. i think for me well 1st. let.

me understand in storytelling for what it easy understanding when leonine audience cultural and all games behavior that's when i'm in a plane that you know we have people going to film school is minute how to handle commanding in our. directed lending at senor lenny the difference department in filmmaking people are now going to hold their skills and when all of these come back then and these are played we get to that place where we have best option that in bollywood 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 right 6. you made it right because. what you call. the hour you want on.

nollywood has been built up 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 and laws which is its greatest strength and weakness at the same time you 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

a powerful counter weight the pictures it produces may have distortions of their own but as african self portrays they add an essential new dimension to the global flood of images of vast provide a more authentic here of africa. what's going on here. a house of your very own from a printer. computer games that are healing. my dog needs electricity. shift explains delivers facts and should what the future holds.

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