Nigeria’s film industry is gaining ground. Nollywood films now travel across continents, stream on global platforms, and ...

Alhaji Adedayo Thomas, Executive Director/CEO, National Film and Video Censors Board(NFVCB), says the board received and censored a total of 382 movies produced by the Nigerian film industry in the ...

The greeting "namaste" associated with yoga and the Pidgin word for trouble, "wahala", widely used across the world thanks to ...

Amazon Prime Video is breaking into the Nigerian film market, also known as “Nollywood.” The global streaming service has struck a multi-year licensing deal with Nigerian production outfit Inkblot ...

Nigerian filmmaker is breaking cultural barriers by bringing Nollywood and Bollywood together through storytelling. The ...

Set up by filmmaker Femi D. Ogunsanwo and finance execs Tunde Leye and Adedayo Amzat, the fund has already invested in heist-thriller 'The Lagos Job.' By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent The banner’s $3 ...

Nigeria’s film industry boomed in the nineteen-nineties, with thousands of low-budget, high-spirited movies shot and distributed on video. Nollywood, as it became known, now produces some twenty-five ...

Filmmakers in the north of Nigeria are pushing the boundaries of censorship in search of international recognition.

For the first time, Essence Fest – which has been celebrating African American culture in the United States for more than two decades – is devoting a day to Nigeria’s Nollywood film industry – the ...

They are also called Director of Photography or simply, DOP. While actors bring characters to life and directors orchestrate the story, it’s the DOP who creates the look and feel of the film. They’re ...