[b]" Del-York International Spearheads “Bem-Vindo A Nollywood’’ Film Festival
In São Paulo, Brazil

LAGOS, NIGERIA, 25 October 2011 – Del-York International is teaming up with Kinopedia Ltd and the Departamento de Expansão Cultural da Secretaria de Cultura, Prefeitura de São Paulo to host the first Nollywood film festival in South America from 18th–27th November 2011.

This milestone will be held at the Cine Olido in São Paulo, Brazil,, which will host a roundtable discussion featuring some of Nollywood’s most respected practitioners as well as showcase a retrospective of nine films by the award-winning director Tunde Kelani.

Since the Festival marks the beginning of a multi-year cultural exchange with the government of Brazil, The film festival aims at promoting Del-York’s mission to inaugurate a sustainable relationship between the Nigerian film industry “Nollywood” and the Brazilian people, by celebrating the Yoruba heritage and traditions shared by both nations. especially those that trace their origin to the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria and Africa at large,which is commendably portrayed in Tunde Kelani’s films.
Tunde Kelani, a celebrated advocate of Yoruba culture, has long been considered to be one of Nigeria’s most accomplished filmmakers. His four-decade-long career started in the early 1970s as a television cameraman. When the devaluation of the Naira decreased filmmakers’ purchasing power, Kelani ceased his work as a cinematographer to direct and produce his own films on video format with the establishment of Mainframe Television and Movie Productions in 1992 – producing such beloved classics as “Saworoide” (1999) and “Thunderbolt: Magun” (2001).
Kelani’s words: “The list of nine films selected for the Ffilm festival are important, because the films are valuable not only to the Yorubas in the homeland, but especially to Yorubas in the Diaspora, who despite 200 years to 300 years of slave-trade and how they got to that side of the world, they have remained true and close to the culture.”

According to the 2011 World Bank report, “The Untold Story of Growth & Employment Potential in Nigeria’s Entertainment Industry,” Nollywood has already demonstrated significant impact on poverty alleviation through the creation of jobs especially for the youth. However, one challenge to its continued growth is that the industry lacks a branding strategy to compete with other well-established industries on a global scale. As such, the “Bem-vindo a Nollywood” Film Festival will formally introduce Nigerian films to Brazilian audiences and contribute to establishing the industry on the international stage, thus growing Nollywood’s export potential and multiplying its ability to create employment."[/b]
http://www.supplemagazine.org/del-york-spearheads-%E2%80%9Cbem-vindo-a-nollywood%E2%80%99%E2%80%99-film-festival-in-sao-paulo.html


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http://nigeriantimes..com/2011/10/del-york-international-takes-nollywood.html

Igbo people are leading the way.

EzeUche:

Igbo people are leading the way. 

the Yoruba film industry have had some collaborations with Brazil back in 2007 before Nollywood came into the picture, and if your read the article there are Yoruba contributions to. So this is not a igbo or Yoruba thing when it comes to this article's story, even though it is a fact that Igbo's do control basically most of the English Nollywood industry.

Why are the Hausas left out?

Dgunnerz:

Why are the Hausas left out?

Well I don't think the hausa's or anybody should be left out but the reality of english Nollywood industry is it's runned by majority igbo's and the minority is runned by other tribes like Yoruba, bini and etc. Now I am not complaining especially since the yoruba's have their own film industry but they are also called Nollywood butt when it comes to the Hausa's from what I heard some look down on the southern nigerian movie industries and don't care to be part of it, so they have their own industry is called kannywood.

That is the reality of Nollywood in Nigeria

^^^^^^.
ok,kannywood.

Another Nollywood festival in Denmark months ago:

[b]"We know Hollywood, we’ve heard about Bollywood, the Indian film industry. They also have their African counterpart, Nollywood. The Nigerian film industry has been growing exponentially since its first movies in the eighties, followed by its first videos in the nineties and the realization that it could be a very lucrative industry. In 2009, more films were produced in Nigeria than in the USA, making Nollywood the second largest film producer (1) !
Zach Amata, pioneer of the movement, describes Nollywood as a unique “way of telling Nigerian stories”. During his visit to Copenhagen for the first Nollywood festival in Denmark, Zach insisted that Nollywood is not about meeting quality standards, but about making people feel the Nigerian experience. The movies produced by his son Jeta, however, have nothing to envy to the Western productions. His latest movie, Black Gold, deals with the struggle for the Niger Delta, and will have its world premiere during the Cannes festival this month – bringing finally Nollywood under the flash lights!"[/b]
http://zeartoflife.com/2011/05/16/nollywood-a-new-voice-of-nigeria/

[b]"I really love this actually, despite the international perception of the quality of Nollywood films (even though that's changing, slowly but surely); I'll almost always applaud any efforts that unite instead of divide across the diaspora.

Courtesy of our good friends at afriPOP!, the first Nollywood film festival ever in South America, begins today in São Paulo, Brazil, and will run through December 4.

Called the Bem-vindo a Nollywood Film Festival, included in the schedule of events are the following:

, A roundtable discussion featuring some of Nollywood’s most respected practitioners

, A retrospective of nine films by the award-winning director Tunde Kelani.

And included in that showcase of Kelani's films will be his latest, which won't be released in Nigeria until February 2012. So, those attending this festival will get to see it before anyone else does.

Titled MAAMi, the film is said to be "an inspiring story of a poor conscientious single mother’s struggle to raise her only child Kashimawo, who, eventually, rises to international stardom in an English football club, Arsenal, and becomes a national hero."

A trailer, which Kelani debuted today via Twitter, follows at the bottom of this post.

It's worth noting that Brazil is a country with the largest number of people of African descent outside of continental Africa, and many of those Brazilians trace their ancestry to Nigeria.

Also, both Brazil and Nigeria are trade partners, with Nigeria being a major provider of oil to Brazil.

So, I suppose it was really only a matter of time before a Nollywood film festival planted its roots there.

As director Kelani states: "The list of nine films selected for the Festival are important because the films are valuable not only to the Yorubas in the homeland, but especially to Yorubas in the Diaspora, who despite 200 years to 300 years of slave-trade, have remained true and close to the culture.”

For the festival's complete lineup of Nollywood films, go HERE. I'll be digging through the list myself and will report my findings later; and as another reminder, my Nollywood sidebar feature debuts in January 2012."[/b]
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/a-nollywood-film-festival-grows-in-brazil-with-tunde-kelani-retro-trailer-for-his-latest-maami#