Lagos nigeria home of africas biggest Film Industry. In terms of Production Output its considered the 2nd largest in the well off to india box ahead of hollywood. A New York Times article published in 2002 coins the industrys 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. That reports to the over 60 movie scam out in the markets today a new nollywood is emerging it generates an annual turnover of over 500000000. 00 u. S. Dollars and produces the superstars of the african continent going from iraq to give us a little hope i think you know. With glitz and glamour industry out shines its humble origins in an ordinary Electronics Market we started this business we are still in business to get in the market im looking. Down Street Vendors continue to lay claim to nollywood a new breed of investor has entered the business. Class 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 its an industry on steroids and make up that kind. Of Cinema Entertainment is huge its a dont go out what is but it was a jungle in america it was a jungle in china because they dont when india will be coming up and may is becoming you know this in methods to the madness our girl go out there to compete on the wall street thats when the wood is going. The industry was born here in lagos. The african metropolis has a population of over 14000000. Its a city that promises much but demands even more. Lagos sproles over a series of islands all connected to the mainland by a network of concrete bridges. Urban development cant keep up with its exploding population. All over the. 5 go. Around 2 thirds of lagos younes live in slum areas like here in my cocoa a community built on stilts between lagos island and the mainland. And the economy depends on trade through lagos says industrial farms. Crude oil is nigerias economic lifeblood it accounts for much of its federal revenue. Deny jungle and. They have been telling us right from windy to call the entertainment is a nest of oil money for the country they want to focus on it in 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. Fulfill. Culture journalist scheiber who signing has been reporting on nollywood for over 20 years hes particularly interested in the generation that started the business you need to know your past to know where youre headed in the future you need to know those who laid the foundation what were their visions what were they trying to prove what were 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 to all the world of 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 take some of the ones. His wifes 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 its narrative structure has a strong message of Christian Faith which remains a standard element of nigerian films today. Oh. 0000000000 yeah. Oh yeah. The movie about andys 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. Production and distribution of the films are managed by this. People in the market traders also Nollywood Movie producer spot. The associations chairman is samuel and that can do it otherwise known as magnetic link was on the board with us you will get on this market or if youre 90 percent ill be content not made up neither would. I think the important off i love more so forth youre not about we started this business we are so often in this business to do it based on this im using the days to go flat out i dont know. The song too much money sent anywhere and i just wrong knocking up the last shot mine and then led to another 4. 00 to lose over 60 movies from out in the markets just like they did the business used in lives of movies yes i do want to do is just. Me mom on bread you know im on star giving it seems like its all down to a long grab at our pipeline but i think 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 see 3 boards up in all of bodies to go for the scores and that is why it is the opposite if one is sending it out to fix the problem. For 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 bangkoks. One of them was just an investor boston got to. Its a masked man out of a market the 1st time i was in the a lava market there werent 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 wasnt easy for me to understand and. As i said i wanted to buy the rights for some of his films but i didnt know if he really owned the rise sheerly he is it was hard for me to figure out what was going on i hadnt spent much time in nigeria it was still unfamiliar to me but i trust this guy or not i didnt 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 werent so internet savvy at the time. We acquired 100. 00 films for 10000. 00 and put them online and food we made 2000. 00 a day. We thought wow. Were going to make a lot of dough in just 5 days we recovered our investment and thought lets 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 were in. A monogamous and we need to gather another 200000. 00 and went on a serious shopping spree. So the move is a just business initially he was surprised by the. Popularity a sharp contrast for the producers. Who know exactly why their films are so successful. Oh. Welcome welcome welcome welcome. As the producer of a wildly popular film about sheena rambo is the most successful film in the history of motherboard yes in the history of the making. In the market this is the most successful film. The movie is based on the legend of. A criminal sent to have carried out a series of spectacular robberies in the 1990 s. Pays homage to the hollywood Action Classic starring sylvester stallone. Is a member of the. Western part of this country and he does this with impunity because of the sham he has an. African magic schon believe in that but its written to his buddy. In the film supernatural powers come from a magical snake. Would films often make use of the vast 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 commercial movies but just think of good movies alone. Fake clothes rather than the one we hear from the good guy. Its one of but i got you this wont buy them. If he has on the movies here and now when hes involved you most want to see that 1st. Book what. Christianity is also a strong source of inspiration for i call it lisa he often develops ideas based on compelling stories from the Old Testament find the take before. It does a giant here and theres a small defeat here on earth and i was told ok everybody would love that theres a put a gun to the im going to do the job so well you just make didnt just go to giant. And kim is not most or you love the gent do. You think i do. Good what good is what is good the let me get is what this is film people watch. The view abuse. So sometimes ill be at the back and see people doing this and i feel 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 the citizens quality you know what im talking about so any fear of this sort you cannot be a proud my picture is too good so what the essence of suffering where are we are 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 when im fina that for us added money enough in the us deprived disparity between when and parents are given pirates more power to sell more because here people care about what is cheap. The Nigerian Police have just confiscated pirate copy is worth over 100000. 00 u. S. Dollars. In order to survive in the face of piracy the filmmakers need to keep that 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. Well ago. When i. Fell. Asleep sleep lets go run it right. Now i want my family down here i think 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 africas precolonial ponced. The title of the movies i mean some of the song. Is actually. On offer accounts of how. About that community would be seized by on drugs seasonal evil man evil monk. You can not walk to school and because paula from the sun. You really got on you want to go to doctors you know the song of the song the soft seat is what your high i. Q. Was for the home prices shot up oh. d several of the actors on sides are actually evangelical pastas me plus the one my church knows that theyve become months or stop me from opt in because i believe im using that octon to preach something to the people also. Ok thats good i thought i thought i was good were going to get it 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 just what we have what kept society together thing thats what we have succeeded to the next whats into the war outside of what mother would. The notion of a purely African World before the arrival of the europeans holds great fascination for nollywood audiences. The costumes on plots are inspired by the producers imagination more than research but historic and accuracy is dont take away from the success of these films. Mercy johnson is undoubtedly one of knowledge words biggest superstars we bring africa as a cultural to the stable of millions of storytelling picture. Yes. He did do you just. Want to. Bring into into centrally our language the centrality address centrally. As a people thats what nollywood. Stands for want. Of. Director ken steve a new car has been in the business for many years he stopped counting his films a long time ago. You cant go out. Which. Is on average of 2 weeks be a movie so im hoping to round up this one then harvey to do a rest stop on the 30 yes lets go see rowsley i have to be frank about it its you thats me on di and theres virgil because there were a few here you like prime youre given a period of time so you could be joking and you all suck says the depends on how well you do it within the given the particle of freedom of time were given to deliver that yeah i open it up dr puryear and get it right forward here. Solomon a patent is one of the most influential film producers in a samba. Are for this you on. The other while if you want. Hes come to the set to ensure that shooting will wrap up today what you would want to do with it will be when you go you know it will be like the movie a little bit even though a little bit of all of what was with all the one that will always be. The face demanded by the big stars take the biggest chunk out of Nollywood Film budgets if massey 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 own you are. A lot less. Ok thank you. 7 for writing and video you know. d that ive the past 11 days the crucial to enough footage for a full hour filmed 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 i got an interest in german expressionism new hollywood. I want that same appreciation. For the nigerian Film Industry people who can have the intellectual discourse about. Seize 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 house they are by ebook who go on an adventure to make a film inspired by nigerias history. The script for the film within the film is based on a text by character called professor org and the thoughts expressed and it reflects my karmas 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 production crippling our country can we truly eradicate poverty when will we become an export based economy nigeria works really what it was were ready to speak so that we can quit importing bloody toothpicks i mean who in. Porch toothpicks. Among other things a comma criticizes nigerias 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 thats just what were good at a real Cinematic Movement that. Will stand the test of time and make an imprint in global cinema you know. Macam 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 paro 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 whole get all 5003 and a half years for. It so. Its aggressive its ambitious but its possible. The new cinema just one component in one part of his grand business scheme. So welcome to financing it was. Ok so we go to the next floor. To see that building there the Green Building there. Thats the house of delegates here the richer the black man in the world clearly the rich africa so we like this office because something is when the wind blows from that side here blows through him and then touches us if we like. Here its. Film 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 pay the executive director of a film power the one in iraq. 3 years ago the stupid remotely wooden boat in the middle box of the science with the wild monkeys tend to be followed until be told this is a good 64 and thats where we will see a complete flip between hollywood and nollywood with will see a complete flip it i double dare say will 1734 long and its the only english English Speaking so that i know of the war that the local films are groups to follow. As movie tickets 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 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 we get a feeling. 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 normally worlds biggest broadcaster only reached a certain section of the population. When you look at the demographics of the place its really from here to the top from the middle to the top we havent reached those guys down there and because the Huge Population they spend a lot of money but small volumes you know small denominations huge part of you know so we are looking to go target those guys keep them going to 10 men they want. Pato wants to reach the masses starting in the poorer districts of lagos he envisages cinemas which some tickets for about 1. 00 and screen films produced by his own company. Is a formula and its work is no. More feel most of says because we are working. To. Think of this as the professionalization of nollywood and thats your point like. The. Majority of this. From the u. K. Film one brought him back to his home country dont want in television in the u. K. In nigeria he now wants to realize canada in paris vision discounts for promising scripts writes them to think commercially successful formula and in some productions he also sits in the directors chair the market will continue to grow and thats where were gong to be known. Talents you know as well Steven Spielbergs and all those guys are. You guys right on the outside now jim where did you become ls plus i want to do what you. Dream where you were going to be waiting outside. The. Thank you very much. This is the way we do it and. I call it the good. Guys that do this good and. So are you. And theres a joke in nigeria that you know if you can find someone to get your family to you off to somebody. New nollywood has been producing one romantic comedy after another huge wedding ceremony the films a wildly successful in nigeria. But the movies are not made specifically for the local market theyre 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 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 does storytelling thats 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 nigerian and thats where making films. Cinema culture which almost died out during a particularly tough period for nigerias economy in the 1980 s. Is experiencing a revival its creating a promising market for technically sophisticated films but so far new not a word 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. I always have for the beer and you go a lot of africans outside of nigeria like to watch Nollywood Films as normally would. Thats not when thats how it got started and franks put in for the hook iroga 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 by never contacted by a representative of a Venture Capital firm named tyco global. To come tell you if you missed it 10 bucks 5000 september 2011 the guy arrived in largos. Back then not many people came to largos to invent. Internet business as. I told the guy a sort of small american. He said carna boys show me your office boys show me off yeah. We said ok lets go to the Market Office 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. Side 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 ill give you a term sheet. We didnt even know what a term sheet was ok thats 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 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 lets do it. One yeah. With that kind of money the partners were able to set up one of 1000 or his 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. 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. It roco 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 faith film for iraq o. T. V. The director learned 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 home 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 lures 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 creates and knowing that the money was not going to cover we had and we dont ok well where girl and deep helpful to the family coffers to make this work. Is almost for the industry is missing a little. After that were doing. A couple has to come. With a tight budget similar to those of the film crews and a samba about their approach to film is more sophisticated they take a closer look at the reality of life around. Folk who. Know. More about the fact. That what we do with. It 1st afrikan for you oh yeah. Thats how we are so i dont think we should be any different in the. Calls that old me you know the more you know most of our stuff well i thought you. Were. Younger. Than my dumb how do you. Want to be 5. So thats really. You. Know. Yeah i am. A. Little now really what is at that phase where you become mean structure is becoming organized is becoming you know this in methods to demand this. I think but 1st. Let. Me understand the storytelling for what he believes were understanding where leonine audience cultural and all games begin here at the time and in a plane that you know we have people going to film school is the new how to handle command me and now. To direct the lending acts in many different departments in filmmaking people are now going to when their skills and when all of these come back and in the end these are play gets to that place where we have that structure that you know hollywood has what do we have to look at yes we do we have people we call him what we produce yes we do and thats all you need for the industry to be very. 6 little bit like you go back. But you go. This is 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 dont. They have created an industry that doesnt care much about rule some clause 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 worlds image of africa were largely made by europeans and americans nollywood constitutes a powerful counterweight 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. It was the worst industrial disaster of all time. 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