Archive for October, 2009

My Regret On Getting Married

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

She is one actress who has traversed Nigeria’s movie industry and is still standing tall to be counted.
She has acted in movies shot in Yoruba, Igbo and English languages. In Yoruba movies, she has accolades to tell her story. In Living in Bondage shot in Igbo language, she gave Nollywood its first real wet kiss on the set .
In this encounter, Ngozi Nwosu, the Arochukwu-born screen actress talks about her career, her failed marriage and her new found faith.

Ngozi Nwosu: I found peace in Yorubaland

You’ve been in Nollywood for quite sometime. But now you seem to be digressing. What’s going on?
I have not left Nollywood. But I had to chill out for sometime because I have other things that I’m doing. But at the same time, I’m still with them because I still have time to do some movies.
Have you done up to 50 movies?
I can’t count the number of movies I have done. The last time I needed to include some of them in my CV, they were more than that. The person I gave my CV to was like, ‘wao!’ What’s going on! So, I can’t count my movies. They are more than 50.

Complete Interview

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/24/my-regrets-about-my-marriage-ngozi-nwosu-speaks/

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Access Nollywood – Quick Facts

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Some Simple Facts About Nollywood

Nollywood is the 3rd largest film industry in the world behind Hollywood and Bollywood

Nollywood films are made on shoe string budgets with an average movie only taking around 10 day to complete with a cost of just $15,000

In only 30 years Nollywood has gone from zero to bring a $250 million dollar a year business.

Nollywood produces more movies yearly than Hollywood and Bollywood

Yoruba Movies are very popular in the home video arena.

There are around 300+ producers who churn out movies at an astonishing rate.

30+ new titles are released in Nigerian shops and markets every week where an normal film will sell about 50,000 copies.

Movies revolve round issues of romance, comedy, the occult, dodgy cops, prostitution and HIV/AIDS/

Nigerian stars are well known in Ghana, Zambia and beyond.

Star actors sometimes work on several movies at the same time.

Yoruba Movies are popular and growing in popularity in Europe and America.

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Directors driving force behind Yoruba Movies And Nollywood

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Nollywood, Nigeria’s movie industry has gained the status of being one of the biggest on the planet and has been gathering huge plaudits worldwide. Although it can improve like anything the industry has grown immensely and has seen great success. This can be attribute to a number of factors but one of the main drivers of the industry remains the directors who remain behind the scenes.

Whilst filming on on location the directors of Nollywood, Yoruba Movies works harder than any other members found in the production crew, including the actors and actresses. Most of the time they spend on the artistic parts of their creation working with the actors to get the character down to perfection. Yoruba movies contain some colourful character which can be identified by the viewers for their fulfilment.

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