Her name is Cauleen Smith. She acts, directs, writes, produces, et cetera.

Cauleen Smith , I’m waiting anxiously for her film as well.

She’s fascinated by Nollywood, the huge, profitable and chaotic film industry in Lagos, Nigeria, and decided the best way to learn about the field was to make a Nollywood film. (I guess Franco Sacchi’s documentary, This is Nollywood, makes it a little harder to make an art film about Nollywood.)

Visiting Lagos, Smith found that her contacts were more interested in holding her for ransom than letting her make a film. But they were generous with their critiques of her ideas for films, rejecting most of them, but finally embracing the plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s psychodrama, Rebecca, which one of her collaborators/captors calls “a very African story.”

I have high hopes that she’ll both remake Rebecca in Nigeria and release a film about her own obsessions, explorations and encounters with Nollywood - I’d pay to see both.

http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2008/08/06/unusual-collaborations-at-creative-capital/

Someone should tell these people that Nollywood is no longer the unregulated, dynamic industry it used to be.