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Film in Nigeria

by Hyginus Ekwuazi

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Published by Nigerian Film Corp. in Jos, Nigeria .
Written in

    Places:
  • Nigeria.
    • Subjects:
    • Motion pictures -- Nigeria.

    • Edition Notes

      Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-215) and index.

      StatementHyginus Ekwuazi.
      Classifications
      LC ClassificationsPN1993.5.N55 E37 1991
      The Physical Object
      Paginationxii, 222 p. ;
      Number of Pages222
      ID Numbers
      Open LibraryOL1187383M
      ISBN 109783129007
      LC Control Number94177250
      OCLC/WorldCa27969210

      The cinema of Nigeria, often referred to informally as Nollywood, consists of films produced in Nigeria; its history dates back to as early as the late 19th century and into the colonial era in the early 20th century. The history and development of the Nigerian motion picture industry is sometimes generally classified in four main eras: the Colonial era, Golden Age, Video film era and the Main distributors: FilmOne Distributions . Nigeria's film industry is known as "Nollywood," and though it borrows its name from the United States, it actually exceeds the United States in the number of films it produces each year, making.

      Read an excerpt from Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know. As the "Giant of Africa," Nigeria is home to about 20 percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest.   Blue film na big business for Nigeria but even as e popular reach, pipo wey dey di industry still dey face serious bad-mouth from kontri pipo.

      The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has disqualified Nigeria’s first submission for best international feature film because the film, “Lionheart,” is predominantly in English. After much struggle, they got support from the Nigerian government thus pushing the industry into a huge success. Nigerians became fully involved in the production of films and by , the first indigenous feature film, “KONGI’S HARVEST”, written by Wole Soyinka, was produced in Nigeria. Though it was directed by an American and many of its crew members were foreigners but as time went.


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