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Cannes 2025: Nollywood basks in spotlight as Nigerian film finally makes the cut

The Cannes screening of “My Father’s Shadow” by director Akinola Davies Jr marks a milestone for Nigeria’s frantically prolific film industry, nicknamed Nollywood, which is counting on the French ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Nigerian Film Banner Labari Africa Launches With $3 Million Nollywood Fund (Exclusive)

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 ...
Variety

Screen Nigeria Sets Ambitious Blueprint as Nollywood Makes History in Cannes: ‘This Is a Coming of Age’ for Prolific Industry

Is Nollywood having its Cannes coming-out party? Ranking among the world’s most prolific film industries for years, Nigeria’s scrappy, homegrown biz is breaking out at this year’s festival, with the ...
insider.si.edu

Global Nollywood : the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry / edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome

Nollywood and its diaspora: an introduction / Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome -- Part 1. Mapping the terrain. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: processes of transnationalization in the Nigerian video ...
Mercury News

Review: Old-fashion love story blossoms in unlikely setting in ‘Nollywood’

The new play at San Francisco Playhouse is a familiar tale of an inexperienced ingenue who dreams of stardom, suddenly thrust into the intrigues and in-fighting of the movie biz. What distinguishes ...