Sunday, March 16th, 2025

AMVCA Introduces ‘Best Music Score’ Category for 11th Edition, Addressing Longstanding Criticism

Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. Over the years, the AMVCA has faced criticism for not adequately recognising sound and […]

Diji Aderogba’s ‘About a Boy and His Muse’ Now Available on Tubi and Accelerate TV

Since its festival run four years ago, audiences have looked forward to its wider release—a frequent case for a touring Nigerian film. Starring the indelible Chimezie Imo and powered by a young team of filmmakers, it always seemed destined for streaming. For those who, like myself, first saw it at the online edition of NollywoodWeek, the question was never if it would find a home, but where and when.

Rise Interactive Studios’ Upcoming AI-Themed Film ‘Makemation’ Sets Sights on Easter Cinema Release

Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. African youth, particularly girls, are leveraging artificial intelligence and technology to tackle some of […]

Short Film Review: Idiagi Ernest Eromosele’s ‘The Audition’ Expands His Zero-Budget Introspective Musing on The Nigerian Youth

Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. As we wrote in our review of Idiagi Ernest Eromosele’s previous short film The […]

Reviews

Short Film Review: Idiagi Ernest Eromosele’s ‘The Audition’ Expands His Zero-Budget Introspective Musing on The Nigerian Youth

Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. As we wrote in our review of Idiagi Ernest Eromosele’s previous short film The […]

‘Reel Love’ Review: Timini Egbuson’s Debut Cinema Production Combines Romance Drenched in Influencer Culture

Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. From staging a relationship to fulfill an inheritance clause, posing as a couple to […]

‘Summer Rain’ Review: Bolaji Ogunmola’s Made-For-YouTube Romantic Flick is Sappy But Charming

Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. Crafting an original modern romance is a daunting task. While audiences devour these stories, […]

‘This is Love’ Review: The Interior Lives of Queer Nigerian Couples in Victor Ugoo Njoku’s Tender Documentary

Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. Prior to Victor Ugoo Njoku and Neec Nonso’s feature-length documentary, This is Love, there […]

‘Princess On A Hill’ Review: Onyinye Odokoro Portrays A Two-Faced Morally-Conflicted Heroine in Showmax’s Work-Place Drama

Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. The epigraph at the pilot episode of Princess On A Hill poses […]

News

AMVCA Introduces ‘Best Music Score’ Category for 11th Edition, Addressing Longstanding Criticism

Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. Over the years, the AMVCA has faced criticism for not adequately recognising sound and […]

Diji Aderogba’s ‘About a Boy and His Muse’ Now Available on Tubi and Accelerate TV

Since its festival run four years ago, audiences have looked forward to its wider release—a frequent case for a touring Nigerian film. Starring the indelible Chimezie Imo and powered by a young team of filmmakers, it always seemed destined for streaming. For those who, like myself, first saw it at the online edition of NollywoodWeek, the question was never if it would find a home, but where and when.

Rise Interactive Studios’ Upcoming AI-Themed Film ‘Makemation’ Sets Sights on Easter Cinema Release

Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. African youth, particularly girls, are leveraging artificial intelligence and technology to tackle some of […]

Nollywood Film Club Revisits Supernatural Classic ‘Diamond Ring’

At this point, it is no news that fewer Nollywood films are getting global releases, something that had mostly become common in recent years thanks to Netflix and Prime Video. But with fewer “strategic” acquisitions by Netflix — and those limited to Africa — global audiences are left with only Circuits, the fledgling, proudly African streaming platform.

MUBI Acquires Rights To Akinola Davies Jnr’s Debut Feature ‘My Father’s Shadow’, Starring Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù

Dear reader, help us understand your Nollywood preferences by filling out our audience survey—your input is invaluable and deeply appreciated! Click this link. MUBI, a global streaming service known for its curated selection of films, has acquired […]

Essays

‘Love and Life’ Review: Rita Dominic, Nse Ikpe-Etim, and Michelle Dede Fail to Shine in Unengaging Plot About Love and Loss

First Features is a Nigerian initiative dedicated to empowering a new generation of film directors who will bring their many talents and unique voices to the industry. The plan is to mentor and assist 12 […]

Collins Okoh and Akinlabi Ishola Discuss Writing a Blockbuster and Answer ‘A Tribe Called Judah’ Burning Questions

Did you know that the script for the highest-grossing Nollywood film, A Tribe Called Judah,  was written in five weeks? The writers of the blockbuster film, Collins Okoh and  Akinlabi Ishola, reveal this in an […]

Afrobeats Superstar Tiwa Savage Stars in Drama ‘Water and Garri’, Coming Exclusively to Prime Video Globally in 2024

Prime Video will launch Nigerian movie Water and Garri, starring international singer Tiwa Savage, exclusively in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide in 2024.  The drama tells the story of Aisha (Savage), an ambitious […]

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