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Welcome to Nollywood; the world third largest movie industry growing up within the last two decade to become the second largest film industry in the world in terms of number of films produce per annual. This is ahead of the United States and behind the
Indian film industries; just according to Hala Gorani and Jeff Koinange formerly of CNN, Nigeria has a US$250 million movie industry, churning out some 200 videos for the home video market every month.
Nollywood is Africa’s largest film industry in terms of number of movie produce annually and value of the movie industry. The Nigerian films have been produced since the 1960s, the rise of affordable digital filming and editing technologies has stimulated the country's video film industry.
The Nigeria first films were made by film makers such as Hubert Ogunde and Ola Balogun in the 1960s, but though, they were troubled by high cost of film production. But the introduction of the television broadcasting in Nigeria in the 1960s and the government supporting them in their early year goes a long way in promoting the movies circulation in Nigeria.
Today in Nollywood, thousands of stars have been made and not only that, the industry is far growing in terns of movie produce annually. We have over thousand producers whose job is to ensure that in every month, not less than two hundred good movies are produce and this also has been going a long way in promoting the industry.
Many Nollywood movies have themes that deal with the moral dilemmas facing modern Africans. Some movies promote the Christian or Islamic faiths, and some movies are overtly evangelical. Others, however, address questions of religious diversity, such as the popular film One God One Nation, about a Muslim man and a Christian woman who want to marry but go through many obstacles.
Many of Nollywood films deal with AIDS, corruption, women’s rights, and other topics of concern to ordinary Africans, and all these impact in peoples life positively…
The entire write up, calls, emails and so on from people out there encourages us and makes us to believe that people are not only entertained but also benefiting from the industry.
But are the people inside enjoying it also? In the industry where we have many guilds such as the Actors guild (AGN), Directors guild (DGN), script writers guild (SWGN) the movie producers (AMP) costumiers, continuity writers etc. and the big question is, are they enjoying it? Till I come your way next edition, help stop piracy in Nigeria.
Article By Fred Stanley
An audition xpo reporter
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