Against the word “emerging”
Nollywood has been emerging for thirty years. At some point the word stops describing an industry and starts describing who is doing…
Kwame Asante
Building a sound department from nothing
No post house, no budget line, and a location next to a generator. How one crew solved it, and what it cost…
The editor nobody credits
She has cut fourteen features in nine years, three of them the biggest of their year. Almost nothing is written about her.…
The re-releases quietly filling arthouse slots
Restored prints and rights-cleared classics are doing the job new releases used to — filling single-screen houses on a Tuesday.
A four-second pan, and what it costs to hold it
The unbroken pan across a market scene that three separate crews claimed took a full day to get right — and why…