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Nollywood Babylon

  • 20082008
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  • 1h 14m
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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.
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Nigeria's film industry, Nollywood, is the third-largest in the world--an unstoppable economic and cultural force that has taken the continent by storm and is now bursting beyond the borders... Read allNigeria's film industry, Nollywood, is the third-largest in the world--an unstoppable economic and cultural force that has taken the continent by storm and is now bursting beyond the borders of Africa. "Nollywood Babylon" is a feature documentary detailing the industry's phenomen... Read allNigeria's film industry, Nollywood, is the third-largest in the world--an unstoppable economic and cultural force that has taken the continent by storm and is now bursting beyond the borders of Africa. "Nollywood Babylon" is a feature documentary detailing the industry's phenomenal success. Propelled by a booming 1970s soundtrack of African underground music, the movi... Read all
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    • Directors
      • Ben Addelman
      • Samir Mallal
    • Writers
      • Ben Addelman
      • Samir Mallal
    • Stars
      • Osita Iheme
      • Chinedu Ikedieze
      • Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen
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      • Ben Addelman
      • Samir Mallal
    • Writers
      • Ben Addelman
      • Samir Mallal
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      • Osita Iheme
      • Chinedu Ikedieze
      • Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen
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    • 3User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde
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    Uche Jombo
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      • Samir Mallal
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      • Samir Mallal
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      Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen: Nollywood has become the voice of Africa, the answer to CNN.

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      Ayamma
      Performed by The Anambra Beats

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    Let's Go to Nollywood
    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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    • Nov 21, 2008

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      • July 3, 2009 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Canada
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    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Nigeria
    • Production companies
      • AM Pictures
      • National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
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      1 hour 14 minutes
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      • 1.78 : 1

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