At the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Nollywood’s brightest names came together for the Nollywood Brunch, a candid industry conversation hosted by producers Charles Okpaleke (Charles of Play) and Moses Babatope.
Guests included familiar screen faces and executives such as Ramsey Nouah, Dakore Akande, Kemi Lala Akindoju, Joy Odiete, Ijeoma Onah, Linda Osifo, and Dr Shaibu Husseini of the NFVCB.
While the brunch celebrated Nollywood’s presence on the global stage, the conversation took on a serious note: the urgent need to match creativity with infrastructure.
“To whom much is given, much is expected,” Okpaleke told the room. “Our industry has accomplished extraordinary work with limited resources. The question now is how we build the structures, finance, policy, distribution and IP protection, that will allow those achievements to last.”
Digital disruption was also on the table. Many acknowledged YouTube’s role in creating opportunities, but warned that accessibility could tempt the industry into lowering its standards. “Accessibility must not become an excuse for lowering production standards,” Okpaleke cautioned. “Our digital future should reflect the excellence the world already recognises.”
Far from being just another TIFF networking event, the brunch was framed as a launchpad for building tangible partnerships and translating talk into actionable steps for the industry.
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