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Nollywood Babylon (2008) -- Nollywood Babylon is an electric, compelling look at contemporary African filmmaking that celebrates Nollywood—Nigeria’s singular, exuberant and audacious brand of cinema.

Overview

User Rating:
7.0/10   27 votes
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Writers:
Ben Addelman (writer)
Samir Mallal (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
3 July 2009 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Plot:
Nigeria's film industry, Nollywood, is the third-largest in the world--an unstoppable economic and cultural... more | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(6 articles)
Nollywood Babylon
 (From New York Post. 2 July 2009, 10:14 PM, PDT)

Nollywood Dreams
 (From Interview Magazine. 2 July 2009, 1:08 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
Let's Go to Nollywood more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Osita Iheme ... Himself
Chinedu Ikedieze ... Himself
Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen ... Himself
Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde ... Herself
Uche Jumbo ... Herself
Kenneth Okonkwo ... Himself
Bob-Manuel Udokwu ... Himself
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:74 min | Canada:74 min
Country:
Canada
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Nigeria
Company:
AM Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen: Nollywood has become the voice of Africa, the answer to CNN. more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Let's Go to Nollywood, 21 November 2008
10/10
Author: Vargas from Montreal

Samir Mallal and Ben Addelman's feature-length doc about Nigeria's hugely successful film industry bursts with color, light, and sound. Vibrantly shot and sharply edited, the film is a whirlwind tour of Nollywood, offering multiple insights into the world's third largest movie-making center.

Mallal and Addelman take viewers deep inside sprawling Lagos, capturing the throbbing rhythms of its streets, its wild contradictions, and how they feed into Nigeria's speedy, soulful, fabulously lurid film-making. The people in the doc, particularly unbelievably prolific director Lancelot Imasuen, are as compellingly dramatic and funny as the characters in ultra low budget Nollywood classics like Private Sin and Highway to the Grave.

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