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This is Nollywood
Nollywood, Nigeria’s booming film industry, is the world’s third largest producer of feature films. Unlike Hollywood and Bollywood, however, Nollywood movies are made on shoe-string budgets of time and money. An average production takes just 10 days and costs approximately $15,000. Yet in just 13 years, Nollywood has grown from nothing into a $250 million dollar-a-year [...]
Continue reading...Interesting News – Hollywood meets Bollywood in Oscar-hyped `Slumdog’
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Hollywood and Bollywood rarely meet. But in the new film “Slumdog Millionaire,” the two international epicenters of filmmaking find an unusually fruitful cinematic union. The connection comes by way of British director Danny Boyle, who shot the film in Mumbai, India, with a cast of mostly Bollywood and local nonprofessional actors. Filming with handheld digital cameras and [...]
Continue reading...Some excellent storytelling
Friday, October 3, 2008
This is not really a story idea from India, but a sharing of some excellent work being done by Brian Storm & his organization Mediastorm, in turning photo-journalists into audio-visual storytellers. Haunting! Some of you may have seen these already, but we would like to request the others to watch when they have the time. And,by the way, [...]
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
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