Efforts to reposition and move the nation’s film industry forward so that it could be attractive to investors and project the country and the African continent to the world better, telling Nigerian stories and for Nollywood to serve as a money-spinning industry after the oil sector may well have started with a recent arts stampede on new trends in the industry
IT was the initiative of Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), which held last Sunday, through its quarterly art stampede that brought together filmmakers, actors, marketers, film critics, art journalists and other stakeholders to share information on how to move the industry forward.
Hinging its position on the fact that the movie industry is the off-shoot of the nation’s TV drama, which started from the conventional stage plays and the moving theatres of the pre-independence era, CORA in its drive chose as topic: The New Trend in Nollywood — a look at the recent works that are redefining Nollywood.
With a panel made up of the nation’s leading movie practitioners, which included Mahmoud Ali-Balogun (producer of Tango With Me); Kunle Afolayan, (The Figurine); Stephanie Okerereke (Through the Glass); Chidi Nwokobia (Champions Of Our Time); Emem Isong (Reloaded); Lilian Amah-Aluko (Jungle Ride); Vivian Ejike (Private Storm); and Kelechi Ikata, who represented Chineze Anyaene (producer of Ije) with Steve Ayorinde, editor of The National Mirror Newspaper moderating, the group critically examined some of the latest movies to have come from the industry.
iREPRESENT (iREP) is a touring film festival founded by three Nigerian culture figures to promote independent documentary films and global awareness about the role of documentary films in deepening participatory democracy.It stages a festival every year, and will run Training and Screening regularly.
