Still Standing: A Nollywood Veteran on Forty Years, Three Comebacks, and Being Forgotten Twice
She was a household name in the 1990s video-film era, disappeared from screens for a decade, and clawed her wa…
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The Costume Designers Who Make Nollywood Believable
Nollywood's rising production values get credited to directors and cinematographers. The costume designers qui…
Why Nigerians Are Going Back to the Cinema
Filmhouse and Genesis cinemas are reporting packed weekend screenings again. The reasons have less to do with …
How Netflix Quietly Rewired Nollywood
Nollywood used to mean a film shot in ten days for a few million naira. The streaming era has split the indust…
Why Nollywood's Oscar Push Keeps Falling Short, and What It Would Actually Take
Every year brings a confident Nigerian Oscar submission and every year ends in quiet disappointment. A clear-e…
Is the Skit-to-Movie Pipeline Killing Nollywood Comedy?
Comedy skits built entire careers on fifteen-second punchlines. Stretched across a full feature, those same in…
The Rise of Chidinma Okorie: Nollywood's Most Interesting New Lead
Three years ago she was playing nameless hospital nurses in soap operas. Today she's being compared to Nollywo…