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[12] [13] As of 1954, mobile cinema vans played to at least 3.5 million people in Nigeria, and films being produced by the Nigerian Film Unit were screened for free at the 44 available cinemas. The first film entirely copyrighted to the Nigerian Film Unit is Fincho (1957) by Sam Zebba; which is also the first Nigerian film to be shot in colour ...
Film as a medium first arrived Nigeria in the late 19th century, peephole viewing of motion picture devices. [1] These were soon replaced in the early 20th century with improved motion picture exhibition devices; the first set of films shown in Nigerian theatres were Western films, with the first film screened at Glover Memorial Hall in Lagos from 12 to 22 August 1903.
The film was adapted to screen by Soyinka, produced by Francis Oladele under the Calpenny Nigeria ltd production company. [ 4 ] [ 17 ] However, Ola Balogun 's post-Civil War film, Amadi (1975) was one of the first notable Nigerian historical films on celluloid, which reflected on the Nigerian pre-Civil War days when Nigerians were very united ...
New Nigerian Cinema or New Nigerian Cinema era (also known as New Wave [1] [2] or controversially as New Nollywood [3] [4]) is an emerging phase in Nigerian cinema, in which there became a major shift in the method of film production, from the video format, which came about during the video boom, back to the cinema method, which constituted the films produced in the Golden era of Nigerian ...
Inkblot Productions is a film production company founded in 2010 by Naz Onuzo, Zulumoke Oyibo, Damola Ademola and Omotayo Adeola. [1] The company produced The Wedding Party and its sequel, both ranking first and second, respectively, on the list of highest-grossing Nigerian films of all time at the time of their release.
The Nigerian film industry is the largest in Africa in terms of volume, number of annual films, revenue and popularity. [9] [10] [11] It is also the second largest film producer in the world. [12] In 2016, Nigeria's film industry contributed 2.3% to its gross domestic product (GDP). [12]
The Yoruba-language cinema began as actors of various Yoruba traveling theatre groups began to take their works beyond the stage to delve into movie production using the Celluloid format, as far back as the mid-1960s. These practitioners are considered in some quarters to be the first true Nigerian filmmakers. [12] Movies like Kongi's Harvest ...
If I Am President is a production of High Definition Film Studios with Bright Wonder Obasi, Osaretin Iyamu, and Nnadi Dumkennenna serving as producers. Written by Bright Wonder Obasi, [ 11 ] the film explores the themes of the Nigerian political system, the struggle in political parties and power.