The frame travels
Lagos is writing for a screen that no longer sits still in one country. What happens to a film when its first…
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19 pieces
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…
Who actually paid for the fourth quarter
Three financiers, one streamer and a telco underwrote most of what reached screens between October and December. The ledger, as best as…
Ninety seconds in a stairwell
One unbroken take, two actors, no score, and a camera that refuses to move when you want it to. Taken apart shot…
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…
What’s on: Lagos, Accra, Nairobi, Johannesburg
Eleven titles worth the trip this fortnight, with the screens that are actually showing them and the ones to avoid.
Film Club 04: the ones that got cut
Four films that lost their endings to a distributor, a censor, or a producer with a stopwatch. We watch the cuts. Then…
Streaming left. What stayed?
The commissioning boom is over. The infrastructure it built is still standing, and it belongs to people who were not there at…
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.…
Ten festival premieres worth planning around
The dates that matter over the next two quarters, from Ouagadougou to Toronto, and what to actually book once tickets open.