Red Circle marks a turning point as the first feature film from Rixel Studios, a company Nora Awolowo founded at the age of nineteen. “This film was born out of me and the team wanting to leave our comfort zone,” the filmmaker says in an interview with What Kept Me Up, alongside Abdul Tijani-Ahmed and Akay Mason. “We wanted to tell a story drawn from everyday Nigerian life, something close to my heart.”
Chinaza Clara Ezeani’s love affair with acting ignited at a tender age when she was captivated by the on-screen magic of Ini Edo and Jim Iyke in The Cat. Inspired by these actors, she embarked […]
In the critically acclaimed film, With Difficulty Comes Ease, Uzoamaka Aniunoh embodies the role of Zainab, a recently widowed Muslim woman. She is stuck within the confines of her mother-in-law’s home and mandated to complete […]
Meet Ebele Okoye, Nigeria’s first female animator and arguably one of Africa’s first female animators. Born in the late 60s right in the middle of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Okoye’s life is filled with unique […]
Oloture, premiering on Netflix in 2020, ends on a despondent note. A bus crosses the Seme border and slowly but surely recedes into the horizon, taking its helpless female occupants into what likely will be […]
There are few known filmmakers from the North and even fewer female filmmakers. This small pool of moviemakers means less mainstream representation on screen for Northern people. Nadine Ibrahim, a Kaduna-born filmmaker, is committed to […]
Let’s play a game called “4 Nollywood films, 1 word,” using A Tribe Called Judah, Far From Home, Blood Sisters and Breath of Life. If you guessed “Blockbuster”, then you are right. However, there is […]
There is a brilliant tale of light and electrical expertise behind every scene in Nollywood’s most impactful projects which the audience doesn’t always get to hear. Who better to tell this story than someone who […]
Editor’s Notes: Beyond the commercial theatrical options, there are some film events that try to bring film lovers together to enjoy the communal exhibition of a movie. In this monthly series, titled The Tentmakers, we will […]
Editor’s Notes: Beyond the commercial theatrical options, there are some film events that try to bring film lovers together to enjoy the communal exhibition of a movie. In this monthly series, titled The Tentmakers, we will […]