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Watch Out Hollywood, Here Comes Nollywood South Africa might be the special focus at this year s Berlin film festival, but the continent s movie industry epicenter seems to lie further north: Thousands of low-budget pictures are released in Nigeria every year. When Hollywood star Charlize Theron recently told reporters that it took just 28 days to shoot her latest film, Monster, an appreciative murmur went through the room. Any Nigerian filmmakers present must have chuckled a little - shooting a movie in five days sounds about right to them. I ve made 25 films over the last five years, Charles Novia, a Nigerian director and producer, told his audience at a panel discussion on Nollywood, Nigeria s booming movie industry in Berlin this week. Equipped with a video camera, a script and often as little as € 5,000, Novia and his colleagues churn out up to 50 feature-length films every week. ....