Welcome to Nollywood Contents Premise Cast list (documentary subjects) Reception See also References External links Navigation menuFull Frame Documentary Film FestivalAvignon Film Festival 2007 ScheduleMelbourne International Film FestivalWelcome to Nollywood IMDb PageReview at Variety.comOfficial websiteUS DistributorNPR's News and Notes Interview with Izu Ojukwu and Jamie MeltzerSF360 article/interview with Director Jamie MeltzerJamie Meltzer Interviewed in Reading EagleNollywood article in The Philadelphia InquirerWelcome to NollywoodWelcome to Nollywood at Full FrameNew York Times Movie DetailsMore Information at the Film Arts FoundationScreening of the Film at the University of Oregon
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Welcome to Nollywood | |
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Directed by | Jamie Meltzer |
Produced by | Michael Cayce Lindner |
Music by | Ben Krauss |
Cinematography | Bruce Dickson Akinola Davies Jamie Meltzer |
Edited by | Daniel J. Friedman |
Distributed by | Cinema Guild |
Release date |
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Running time | 56 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Welcome to Nollywood is a 2007 documentary film directed by Jamie Meltzer, which premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival,[1] and also played at the Avignon Film Festival[2] and the Melbourne International Film Festival in the summer of 2007.[3]
Contents
1 Premise
2 Cast list (documentary subjects)
3 Reception
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Premise
The Nigerian film industry, known as Nollywood, has exploded in the last ten years. Now the most popular cinema in all of West Africa—more popular even than imports of Hollywood or Bollywood films—the Nigerian film industry has distinguished itself by shooting all films (called video films there) on digital video. This has allowed production schedules to be compressed (films are shot in several days) and immediately brought to market (distribution consists of bringing films to Idumota electronics market in Lagos and selling them for home viewing). The sheer volume of Nigerian video films is staggering: one estimate has a film being produced for each day of the year. Nollywood is now the third-largest film industry in the world, generating US$286 million per year for the Nigerian economy. And yet this vibrant, profitable industry is virtually unknown outside of Africa.
The film looks into this newly emerging film industry, exploring its peculiar inner workings, economic challenges, and diverse array of colorful films. Traveling to the country’s chaotic largest city, Lagos, Meltzer spent ten weeks following three of Nigeria’s hottest directors, each different in personality and style, as they shot their films about love, betrayal, war and the supernatural. Welcome to Nollywood tells the stories of these three directors and their latest productions, whilst also using interviews with scholars, actors, and journalists who celebrate, in insightful and often humorous ways, the Nigerian video-film industry as a whole, its unique character and genres, as well as its impact on the culture of West Africa and Africans at home and abroad.[4]
Cast list (documentary subjects)
Izu Ojukwu - Director
Chico Ejiro - Producer/Director- Don Pedro Obaseki - Producer/Director
Charles Novia -Producer/Director
Shan George - Actress- Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima - Producer
Tunde Kelani - Producer/Director- J.T. Tom West - Actor
Richard Mofe Damijo - Actor- Francis Duru - Actor
Reception
Review by Lisa Nesselson at Variety from the Avignon Film Festival: "Jamie Meltzer's Welcome to Nollywood boasts wall-to-wall bravado filtered through African-style entrepreneurship: Hook any of the producer-directors profiled here to a generator and the energy might just offset global reliance on oil. Docu is a must for cinema classrooms and fests and a hoot for curious auds on tube and beyond."[5]
See also
- Cinema of Nigeria
- This Is Nollywood
- Nollywood Babylon
References
^ Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
^ Avignon Film Festival 2007 Schedule
^ Melbourne International Film Festival
^ Welcome to Nollywood IMDb Page
^ Review at Variety.com
External links
- Official website
- US Distributor
- NPR's News and Notes Interview with Izu Ojukwu and Jamie Meltzer
- SF360 article/interview with Director Jamie Meltzer
- Jamie Meltzer Interviewed in Reading Eagle
- Nollywood article in The Philadelphia Inquirer
Welcome to Nollywood on IMDb- Welcome to Nollywood at Full Frame
- New York Times Movie Details
- More Information at the Film Arts Foundation
- Screening of the Film at the University of Oregon