THE AMAKA:

THINK POSITIVE!!
why are people always so negative.
have hope sometimes.
i STILL have hope and will always have hope.

sexyLeamon:

when the change comes, pls inform me I can't bother having hope

THE AMAKA:

OH PLEASE! if you dont want to settle for trash, then i suggest you give the producers ALL THE MONEY THEY NEED to make the best movie they can.
just about 2 weeks ago a special on nollywood came on tv.
mercy johnson was actually in it.
they were doing a movie about the war that happend in liberia.
the producers were running out of money so they were rushing!!
the hotel bill was skyrocketing, the actors and extras went without breakfast and lunch.
this is all because they couldnt afford to pay for all the expenses.
they were rushing to complete the movie because they were running out of money.
you see? thats why if they had more funding the movies could be better. most of this is coming out of the producers pockets. although they are saying that the government has started funding about 40% of certain movies now.
but im not too sure about that last part.

C2H5OH:

the only one getting uptight here locking in caps, screaming, is you amaka. dudes and dudettes have come forward to explain/argue why they are dissatisfied with A and B, but all you keep crowing about is one mongoose's lack of money.

since you are the all-giving leader of nigeria's progressive movement, why don't you donate your trust fund to them for the good of your motherland.

nuzo:

@The Amaka
I doubt if you have ever been to Nigeria before, hence why most your posts are out of point.

ThiefOfHearts:

This chic is so obnoxious. Most NL teenagers are anyway. Just yarn uninformed dust upon dust

ThiefOfHearts:

This chic is so obnoxious. Most NL teenagers are anyway. Just yarn uninformed dust upon dust

oge4real:

@Poster,
You were making a point, then you decided to shoot yourself in the leg. In 2009, you are still brazen enough to come to the public and announce your deficiency.
Is film directing same thing with festival management?
How many of the so-called yoruba actors even understand English at all? Yet you want them in Nollywood.
Whether you like it or not, Nollywood is the official film industry of this country, so if you know something that will help make it better and you keep it to yourself, sorry.
Remember that the brethren of a mad man takes the shame more than the madman himself.

lawisong:

Believe it or not, the originator of this thread did not mean to sound tribalistic. Perhaps it was wrong choice of words that made him appear tribalistic. I believe what he wanted was to create an avenue where we  can all proffer solutions to the present setbacks experienced by our beloved Nollyhood and how to move d industry forward. I am neither an igbo nor a yoruba but i'm amazed at the aggression of amaka and co towards this issue. Na wa o. But this is a common thing that when a particular tribe dominate at the helm of affairs people tend to generalise if things go wrong. Abi have we not heard even d igbos accusing d hausas for ruining the nation's politics. Why dont they blame Yaradua instead. So my brother is not far from the truth if he too generalises. Afterall the igbos are at the helm of affairs in nollyhood. Come to think of it, how will nollyhood grow when two brothers Esiegbu and Kanayo are busy fighting for the top job. Now are these two not igbos? Abeg lets call a spade a spade instead of causing a miniature civil war 2 here. One love.

lawisong:

Believe it or not, the originator of this thread did not mean to sound tribalistic. Perhaps it was wrong choice of words that made him appear tribalistic. I believe what he wanted was to create an avenue where we can all proffer solutions to the present setbacks experienced by our beloved Nollyhood and how to move d industry forward. I am neither an igbo nor a yoruba but i'm amazed at the aggression of amaka and co towards this issue. Na wa o. But this is a common thing that when a particular tribe dominate at the helm of affairs people tend to generalise if things go wrong. Abi have we not heard even d igbos accusing d hausas for ruining the nation's politics. Why dont they blame Yaradua instead. So my brother is not far from the truth if he too generalises. Afterall the igbos are at the helm of affairs in nollyhood. Come to think of it, how will nollyhood grow when two brothers Esiegbu and Kanayo are busy fighting for the top job. Now are these two not igbos? Abeg lets call a spade a spade instead of causing a miniature civil war 2 here. One love.

THE AMAKA:

OH PLEASE! if you dont want to settle for trash, then i suggest you give the producers ALL THE MONEY THEY NEED to make the best movie they can.
just about 2 weeks ago a special on nollywood came on tv.
mercy johnson was actually in it.
t[b]hey were doing a movie about the war that happend in liberia.
the producers were running out of money so they were rushing!!
the hotel bill was skyrocketing, the actors and extras went without breakfast and lunch.
this is all because they couldnt afford to pay for all the expenses.
they were rushing to complete the movie because they were running out of money.
you see?[/b] thats why if they had more funding the movies could be better. most of this is coming out of the producers pockets. although they are saying that the government has started funding about 40% of certain movies now.
but im not too sure about that last part.

$osisi:

Please hold it!!!!!!!!!
are you trying to be funny or you think you're talking to blockheads
This is the very first post on this thread

Now how is it not about tribe?
did you correct that lunatic that posted that if it wasn't about tribe?
how irritating!

lawisong:

Amaka i like ur sense of maturity alot. One would have expected u to give that thiefofhearts a black eye for her insolence but rather u decided to laugh it over in the true spirit of sportsmanship. Thats a nice wife quality u got there. Abeg are u still single? I think i'm interested Well, whatever the case, please lets try and air our views like literate adults without insulting one another. You never can tell who the other person is. It may even be ur mama, big aunty or the general overseer of ur church. Once again, amaka let me know if u're single, women like u are hard to find.

Aloy~Emeka:

This is one of the reasons they banned some actors/actresses some years ago. I know that these Yoruba tribalists would have raised hell if majority of the banned professionals were Yoruba, happily they were igbo.

These marketers make arrangements for location(majority of Nollywood movies are shot in Lagos and Enugu), they contract camera men, costume designers blah blah blha and if it they are gonna use a house, they beg the owners to let them use their property for about 8 hours. The star actor/actress will not arrive on location on time. Bimbo Akintola and Genevieve Nnaji were notorious for that. Sometimes, they arrive 4 hours later and shooting will be cancelled for that day meaning that the sponsor will pay extra to all the contractors for their accommodation, feeding and hope they don't have another thing planned for the next day. The producer will also beg the landlord and his wife for another chance just because an arrogant actor/actress refuses to act professional.

When they were slammed with a ban, some started running their ukpaka mouth against the very marketers who made them stars because they felt they are indispensable. What they didn't know was that someone's star power goes down if he/she becomes absent for a long time. They had to beg for their jobs back.

What most of these tribalists don't know is that actors and actresses are not the only human resource in film production. In most cases, they are not the highest paid professionals in a production. There are few Igbo or Yoruba movie that are completely produced by one tribe.