This year’s TIFF City to City program will focus on Lagos, Nigeria! This shouldn’t be much of a surprise, given the internationally-recognized supremely-prolific movie industry that calls Nigeria home – Nollywood; an industry that’s given birth to a growing cadre of local filmmakers interested in shifting the mostly unfavorable critical “outsider” perceptions of films made by Nigerians in […]
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Olatunji Afolayan is an accomplished production designer who has facilitated notable and outstanding film projects, television productions and game shows in the areas of set building, property management and art direction. He holds a certificate in Dramatic Film Making from the Nigerian Film Institute (NFI), Jos and is a graduate of Mass Communication from the […]
Omenka, Africa’s premium magazine on art, business and culture from the continent, scores another first this March with the first of two special issues devoted to Nollywood! This ‘Film Issue’ traces the trajectory of this global phenomenon, including its beginnings, challenges of funding and the scourge of piracy. Also featured are the iconic figures and […]