kingingkinging:

With reference to the highlighted, do you mean home video or the name Nollywood or Film-making?

it is probably the word Nollywood that I know could have emanated from the Eastern part of Nigeria because film-making started with the likes of Hubert Ogunde in the Sixties, Ishola Ogunshola, Awada kerikeri, Baba Sala,etc

I could remember watching home videos in Yoruba films even before the 1992 first Igbo movie Living in Bondage by Nnebue.

read the interview below for more knowledge and information

http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/10668/26/nnebue-produced-27-yoruba-films-before-living-in-b.html

Please do not give people wrong information.

Too much lies from our Igbo brothers and sisters.

customized13: hubert ogunde and ola balogun made movies in the 60s but were frustrated with the cost of movie production

customized13: The "mean-business" mentality in nigeria movie industry today is an initiative of igbos, the 1st nigerian movie to attain international renown is osuofia in London which was purely an "englo-igbo" movie

VillageBoi:
And the cost of movie production today is still frustrating.


People can take that 'mean business' in different ways... it's all business alone hence generally bad movies. Chop the audience by any means abi?

We Igbos and ALL Nigerians need to step up our filmmaking game. Period.

hayoakins:

I would have loved to deliver you from your brief madness but i would rather elongate it for you.

Eyin omo osi rada rada yi, a puto soro (im be cile)

lynx200: I didn't want to respond to some of the immature posts going by the background check I did on most of the posters but I have been forced to comment. I put up a topic that could help bring attention to an illegality happening in a part of the country and all most of you can do is engage in ethnic bashing? No wonder nothing gets solved in this country. What a shame! Did any of you even read the article? There are issues in the film industry nationwide and I decided to bring out one and yet you all abandon the issue and chase fluff. In a time when most of the world is engaging in collaborations across different divides you are all being ethnic jingoists. I fear for the future of this country.

No one can take away the fact that the Nollywood phenomenon originated in the East but when such brigandry happen it stifles the whole movie industry in the East. Ever wondered why there are no good cinema films coming from the East? This is one reason. There are even many indigenes who want nothing to do with the industry and head to Lagos. If this continues there might not be any film industry in Eastern Nigeria any more. Those who I directed the issue at understand the issues at stake (thank you for your enlightened comments,you know yourselves) so I stand by my topic. Until we start facing the real issues in this country and taking responsibility instead of chasing shadows and blaming government officials (who are just a reflection of us as a people) and ethnicity this country is going nowhere.

customized13: hey, my brother, I just want you to know that your children will always be igbos, the will come and develop igboland, the only way you can enjoy your children is if you reside in southeast during your old age, if not, your children will neglect you like rags, the only way you can make it in life is if you continue to be igbo. ke kwanu nwanne.

odinma1:

Bia Nnana, this is becoming stale and boring. Abeg try another format. My children are Igbo- duh?? Get that fact into your head- I AM IGBO.True Nwafor, Born and Bred in Anambra State, if you dont like it, then lump it mate.

Anambra Adigo Mma

customized13: hubert ogunde and ola balogun made movies in the 60s but were frustrated with the cost of movie production, nigeria movie industry didn't come to limelight until igbos introduced themselves into it. The "mean-business" mentality in nigeria movie industry today is an initiative of igbos, the 1st nigerian movie to attain international renown is osuofia in London which was purely an "englo-igbo" movie

kingingkinging:

Keep deceiving yourself and the gullible, ' un-informed and ill-informed people ' with fake and poor statistics.

What I hate most about lies is that when they go too long unchallenged, they tend to have similitude of the truth and people will have no choice but to accept it as the truth whereas it is nothing but a lie.

How did you come about the highlighted submission?

kingingkinging:
How did you come about the highlighted submission?

Mitsurugi:

That's why I am planning to shoot all my movies in the South West or South South. I schooled @UNEC and because of such nonsense at NAIKO HOTELS (The AGN HQ) or MACDAVOS, Enugu I was forced as a student to register with the tidy sum of N10,000 with the AGN headed by the late Pete Eneh and Steve Ajebo (that guy was nasty, same as all them actors always pretending... all they did was drink and smoke all day) and I never even got a role despite the fact that I spoke better English (was a Law student) than them all, intepreted the cameo roles satisfactorily and had previous stage and TV experience (it was worse considering the farce of an audition Charles Inojie orchestrated)... it was just a cabal thing, so I was later made to understand. If you tried to act or even shoot on the streets without being a member of their redundant posses, you are harassed and even assaulted by their militant wing aptly tagged "TASKFORCE". I just gave up went back to school. I now act as a Police Officer on Tinsel, and I am concluding plans to begin the shoot of my new movie despite the fact that I am no longer a member of the AGN or DGN. If I have to shoot in the East, I have a remedy, allow the TASKFORCE mess up and then simply sue the AGN and make three times more. AGN is just an idiotic organisation that has no idea what it was meant to do ab initio and in the East, they are just as clueless as they come. Check it... most mediocre Nollywood films are shot in the East and that is where you will find talentless, fading and dying actors who keep getting roles; I stand to be corrected. Oh well...

IYANGBALI: wetin you dey brush?you still get teeth for mouth?

speedyboi: Fast forward six months later, nothing's changed; nairaland still crap, these mad people still exist! Why should this be the first topic i'd click on after my vacation.....? *sighs*

speedyboi: Fast forward six months later, nothing's changed; nairaland still crap, these mad people still exist! Why should this be the first topic i'd click on after my vacation.....? *sighs*

prof800:
speedyboi!!!