Welcome to Nollywood: The world’s second-largest film industry

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In just a few years, Nigeria has climbed the cinematic ladder and pushed Tinseltown into third (with Bollywood in India holding the top spot). Today, Nigeria is inundated with aspiring moviemakers whose productions are generating multi-million-dollar blockbusters and the obligatory glamorous red carpet events.
Our Reporters team travelled to a vibrant and camcorder-dominated Lagos in the midst of the African International Film Festival (Afriff) - the largest of its kind on the African continent - to meet with some of Nigeria’s most prominent directors, producers and actors.
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[@vishaldhakne3895]

Best of luck Nigeria 🇳🇬 Love from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬😘😘😘😘💐💐💐💐💐

[@ossychibunna7285]

Thank bro

[@Churros1616]

Nigeria and India the next two superpowers. Black people unite.

[@isadore9793]

Fact

[@raphrobe-9896]

Indians are not black, but I agree with the rest.

[@eminent609]

Yes Indians are orange

[@savorlesscontent4685]

@@eminent609 Indians are brown. There are many ''black'' people who share the same skin tone as Indians.

[@ashaypallav4158]

Indians are Black, Brown, White, Yellow but generally speaking Brown.

[@PravinPatil41]

Best of luck nollywood.

[@indiaindetails78]

Good Nigeria 👍👍 Love from land of Bollywood 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳🇳🇬❤️🇮🇳

[@winnerone1817]

Nollywood films make us proud

[@ayubajohn1970]

Proud of Nigeria and Africa

[@chukwumachristopher3391]

LAGOS IS NOT THE CAPITAL CITY OF NIGERIA. How many times do we need to go over this? I'm just amazed

[@vnation4443]

Can you blame them? AFRICAN journalists have FAILED the continent big time by not telling the real AFRICAN story as it should

[@leonardorjioffor6683]

The European presenter is simply ignorance and lacked information, he don't need the help of any Nigerian journalists to get facts of his information. He said that Lagos is a city of 12 million people which is another fallacious report from him

[@ay1ism]

@@leonardorjioffor6683 Lagos used to be the capital so he may not be aware it has been moved to Abuja.

[@savorlesscontent4685]

Lagos USED to be the capital of Nigeria maybe he learned that information but doesn't know that it's now Abuja.

[@azeezedo-omozuwa1820]

@@ay1ism Lagos stopped being the capital in the early 90s. Isn't that enough time for journalists to know their facts?

[@wisdomuwaifo7978]

Lagos is not the capital city of Nigeria and the population is more than 12 million, it's 21 million

[@dogons2k12]

Tell them!!!!! Why the need for our own international media platforms for accurate journalism of activities in the continent of Africa

[@leonardorjioffor6683]

@@gladyshycienth4710 are you foolish for saying that?

[@savorlesscontent4685]

@@gladyshycienth4710 It's Abuja but Lago USED to be the capital. Lagos is the most populated state.

[@questionmark3261]

The "Indian Film Industry" is no.1 in terms of film production not "Bollywood". Because "Bollywood" is only Hindi language film production industry and India is a linguistically diverse Country. It seems that the news anchor has not done the homework. But best wishes for "Nollywood" from India ... 🙏🇮🇳

[@leonardorjioffor6683]

Very true, he simply lacked knowledge of what he is reporting, he gave a lots of false informations about Nigeria on this documentary

[@kingsleyboniface42]

@@leonardorjioffor6683 it is still WOOD

[@festusigiewe2914]

Thank you so much for showing the world 'the other face of Nigeria'.

[@thelopsangexperience4566]

After Hollywood-LA ,It’s Bollywood-Mumbai and Korean Film industry and Hongkng film industry 🎥🇺🇸🇮🇳

[@RajeshKumar-hb5ev]

Happy to see Nigeria in Entertainment Map in the world. Now Its Just a Seed , and one day it will became huge tree of African Cinema. I hope in future will See Nollywood movie in Chennai, India With Full crowd . Love from Chennai, Tamil Nadu ,India. #Mesiere# Nigerian Cinema to the world.

[@lawijeawele9560]

Up Nollywood❤️❤️❤️

[@yogesharora291]

Wow I get a lot of information about Nollywood I would like to watch some good Nollywood movies please recommend some movies btw love from india ♥️♥️♥️

[@okikiolawale7917]

You can watch living in bondage, king of boys, fifty, october 1, shine your eyes, half of a yellow sun and many more all on Netflix

[@9jafiness_tv]

Nice to see the love for nollywood please watch wedding party 1&2

[@Biobele]

Wedding party 1

[@shawngilliland243]

First I've ever heard of "Nollywood". Well done, ladies of Nollywood.

[@Biobele]

Wow you must have been living under a rock

[@ayikiasanato2691]

@@Biobele no, I think his google isn't working properly

[@Biobele]

@@ayikiasanato2691 in the US and UK especially, black comedians especially those of African descent like Godfrey, Yvonne Orji, Gina Yashere, Daliso Chaponda, Unknown P and many more use the term Nollywood alot. News stations like Aljazeera, France24, BBC, CGTN, NBCnews, CNN etc have all done entire 30 minutes or 1 hour feature segments about Nollywood. Nollywood is the second largest movie industry in the world. It's more than just Google bro. It's like an adult telling us he or she has never heard of or seen Coca-Cola in his life.

[@Biobele]

Shawn ignorance is not a virtue, you shouldn't be proud of your ignorance

[@ayikiasanato2691]

@@Biobele don't just mind that guy

[@akshaysharma8940]

Lots of love from India🇮🇳

[@czas4]

How did this huge media outlet, FRANCE24, not do even a quick Google search to know that Lagos is not the capital city of Nigeria. Except that, the video is not bad though.

[@iiikennedy7040]

Everything France is stupid

[@savorlesscontent4685]

Other than that misinformation. For the first time watching a ''documentary'' or ''news'' about Nollywood and westerners going to Nigeria to film Nollywood in action. They actually showed the nice places in Nigeria and not ''Poverty porn'' like westerners tend to do.

[@tojusote4896]

How can you call it second class when they have the second highest production on d globe

[@leonardorjioffor6683]

The presenter is purely an ignorant man for saying that Lagos is a city of 12 million inhabitants, Lagos is a city of 22 million people

[@savorlesscontent4685]

He also said that Lagos is the capital when it's actually Abuja.

[@adibejohn1699]

She didn't say that Lagos is a city of 12million people she said"" 12million of its habitants are poor

[@parentscrib]

Lagos is not capital. Not 12 million, it's over 21 million. Finally there's not violence or fighting in Lagos. You guys should stop misinformation. You're scaring our visitors. There's no single fighting in Lagos. Thank you

[@youpedia4614]

I'll definitely be the one to push the nollywood movie industry forward!

[@ashaypallav4158]

Nigeria for Super Power 💖❤Love from India

[@lilprime4872]

1.lagos is not the capital of nigeria 2.there are about 21 million people in lagos not 12. 3.only 8.5 percent of the population can be considered(by definition) as poor. Get your facts right.

[@bendedstraw4294]

@Afri Media 😂😂😂

[@sundarreddy6935]

@@nigerdeltamirrortv9311 That's happens not only with Africa but also India. They don't research just post what ever they like. Ex: in this video they said Bollywood is largest film producing industry but it's not true. Bollywood is just 45% of Indian Cinema.

[@ayubajohn1970]

Africa let to tell our story

[@azeezedo-omozuwa1820]

Proudly Nigerian! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

[@ayolovephat]

Correction : Nigeria's Capital city is Abuja. It used to be Lagos but that's no longer the case.

[@adetunjibusayomi1867]

@@gladyshycienth4710 how can you say Lagos is the capital of Nigeria And you are a Nigerian? Doubt it

[@savorlesscontent4685]

@@adetunjibusayomi1867 They aren't probably a westerner that doesn't want to be corrected by Africans.

[@ayubajohn1970]

I love African

[@savorlesscontent4685]

That's because you are one.

[@francesca-en8nm]

Lagos is even well recognised world than Abuja in Nigeria just imagine 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@savorlesscontent4685]

because of the population/bustling city life and it's the perfect place to film 'povery porn' because of the underdeveloped areas there.

[@highandmightyqueen79]

Nollywood needs to improve sound cause when you watch their movies the volume goes up and down a lot and sometimes its hard to watch the movie cause its too large.

[@AmayaRue2360]

Why would you want Hollywood to move its studios. Grow instead. Colonial mentality much

[@alegbekehinde8753]

What he meant by Hollywood moving its studios is that at the rate Nollywood is growing its quality, budget and content might begin to rival that of Hollywood if not surpass it. That alone could make them start looking for that African market share. It's already happening tho. Disney recently announced it's now has some Nigerian based animation just like wakanda soon to be released. So in a nutshell what he's saying is that Nigerians strive to be the best at whatever they set out to do.

[@AmayaRue2360]

@@alegbekehinde8753 Still doesn't take away the fact that it's still promoting colonialism ( Google this theory in media studies to understand what l am saying) Nobody moved to for Hollywood to be. Africa should be confident in its film industry to have it on its own terms not go around begging for business as we do AID

[@savorlesscontent4685]

@@AmayaRue2360 THANK YOU! They are the same people who think China is Nigeria's best friend. All these other countries want is resources from Africa so they can stay on top.

[@kngston20]

@@AmayaRue2360 I see your original point, Nigerians need to own the entire industry and continue to grow it, but the streaming services have moved to Nollywood, Netflix, Disney and Amazon Studios on the way so guess it was imminent.

[@AmayaRue2360]

@@kngston20 did you know that the original idea of movie streaming came from Nigeria? How else has Nollywood built a 3 billion dollar industry? The home video back in the day started streaming films for its diaspora audience and that's where streaming became popular. So in fact Netflix etc took over the VOD industry that Nigeria was a pioneer of

[@dikaofoma4444]

A Nigerian should have been interviewed.

[@czas4]

What do you mean? Who did you think were interviewed?

[@savorlesscontent4685]

@@czas4 Maybe they weren't Nigerian enough for him........

[@extochrisb5773]

Good luck 9ja. Our main problem now is the Islamic. It has been a problem 4 so long

[@marsalien1339]

INDIA is no 1 in film making Because in INDIA there is Many film Industries like Bollywood, tollywood, mollywood, Punjabi, kanadda films And many more

[@Ayogenius67]

Wat abt zellyworld😂

[@voiceofinsight5811]

Lagos IS NOT and WAS NOT the capital of Nigeria at the time of this video's posting, please do your research well FRANCE 24. The capital was moved from Lagos to Abuja 25 good years! (a whole quarter of a century!) before this video's posting date.

[@MusuJallow-yu2cy]

Hi am interested in acting how can I join Nollywood movie

[@ernestgbarbea1878]

🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

[@abimbolaakinyemi4811]

The three industries that Nigerians watch are Bollywood,Hollywood and Bollywood and for girls, k-drama

[@savorlesscontent4685]

You said Bollywood twice, is the 2nd Bollywood suppose to be "Nollywood"?

[@krazybonez6254]

Always get your facts straight, first Lagos isn't the capital and Lagos isn't 12million with everybody poor....its about 21million and yes there are poor and rich just like everywhere.

[@simplyizustic6122]

Kunle Afolayan was right and in even shorter time.

[@bcp2795]

according to viewer indian film industry is largest in the world 3.2 billion &hollywood 2.3 billion

[@jon-unicorn-doxxer]

Its just number of people...but Hollywood is $10Billion industry...

[@joysjose2041]

Watchtoonz Rex Yes but with less audience... Lol

[@jon-unicorn-doxxer]

well the US has 320 million population India is over a Billion people...

[@user-pr8wl3zf6g]

That great....i am an African and I would like to see the world going forward. What make me more excited about these videos is that many people coming to know that Africa is not a jungle as the media thought them. At least we are now getting recognize in the world.

[@jon-unicorn-doxxer]

@Bilal Al Amin I'm South East Asian..and you sound a typical offended Indian who got recently affordable internet because of the thing called Jio... Also numbers meant nothing if the Average revenue per person is very low... Market > number of people...

[@santumanna2277]

Bollywood is 2nd movie industry

[@savorlesscontent4685]

No...Bollywood is the 1st movie industry, Nollywood is the 2nd and Hollywood is the 3rd.

[@ashaypallav4158]

@@savorlesscontent4685 Reverse the list lol

[@savorlesscontent4685]

@@ashaypallav4158 Bollywood is frst, Nollywood is 2nd Hollywood is last. But I'm going by distrubution and output. Not by grossing. Common sense should have told you but common sense isn't common.

[@ashaypallav4158]

@@savorlesscontent4685 First learn spellings before teaching me common sense, what the hell is distrubution. Mujhe toh Madrassi lagte ho 😂🤣

[@savorlesscontent4685]

@@ashaypallav4158 I do not care to spell a colonial language correctly. It is not my native tongue so I do not care to spell the lanaguge of a coloniser correctly. And if you are going to use your neo-colonial mindset to shame someone for misspelling a foreign langauge. At least get your grammar right. It's not ''what the hell is distrubution.'' It's ''What the hell is distrubution?''. This is why your country is in the states it's in.

[@SilvanaDil]

The entire Nigerian film industry generated $3 billion last year -- wow -- not. Disney alone generated $3 billion just at the box office with only 3 movies in the space of a few months ("Zootopia," "Captain America: Civil War," and "The Jungle Book"). Two months earlier -- "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Two months later -- "Finding Dory." Now: "Doctor Strange," "Moana" and "Rogue One."

[@SilvanaDil]

Something like a car is quite different than a movie. Many countries have managed to grow huge auto industries; no one else has ever come close to Hollywood. Government help? This is why other countries don't compete well with America on entertainment. Our entertainment is by the private sector. Our government doesn't even have a Minister of Culture.

[@victimsofthe3784]

Dude how much did nollywood generate in total in last financial year. Give me a figure, and avoid quotations of individual movies.

[@STONJAUS_FILMS]

Dude, you missed the point, I didn't know about Nollywood, the point is to raise awareness..... if I'm a director waiting for a 5 million dollars deal to happen to start a feature film career and there are Nollywood directors that finished 10+ films with way less than that maybe I have a LOT to learn.

[@joysjose2041]

SilvanaDil Whatever it is, we Indians went to moon with a cost less than Hollywood movie "Gravity"... And our second moon mission cost is cheaper than Hollywood movie "Interstellar"... :)

[@bendedstraw4294]

Silvana so what ?

[@lordbyron4242]

Imagine that and we are still a third world country

[@Churros1616]

There is no such thing as third world countries. You mean an emerging country.

[@samwarmate9291]

That is the problem with sell outs like this deep pocketed Yoruba bloke,he is not interested in appealing first to Nigerians and Africans.he is more interested in winning the approval of white america.to hell with him and his type.i pray that the igbos who dominate this industry will not be trying to bow to white people when making films.quality is very important,but not subservience.

[@Ayogenius67]

Just wait for UGAWOOD,it’s fire on fire🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬wait for us

[@chuddysambo3625]

This documentary is derogatory

[@ramideeb]

In what capacity is she speaking about nollywood? Seriously, bring an academic or at least some well-informed critic or enthusiast.

[@efemzyekun900]

Very ignorant presenter and guest...they know so little about Nigeria. Anyway, we move...

[@savorlesscontent4685]

yes

[@somanathbehera525]

loliwood

[@thecolorred1823]

Nollywood, Bollywood you might sell more movies and rip off our name but we still make better movies than you.

[@Banos23]

Its not a competition. Obviously we are learning from the best.

[@PS-ul1jt]

Sure u have much bigger budget.

[@thevitruvianman9781]

It shows he's feeling quite threatened, he may not admit it, but thats why he said that, fear.

[@igbinosasandra897]

The color Red I smell jealousy

[@victimsofthe3784]

lool. Dude who is the best. Change that mindframe. Carbon/melanin is the best creative, just keep doing and improving.

[@amirhussainbalti]

Third class move industry

[@Biobele]

Third class comment from a third class person

[@eghoborosakpolor9596]

Ur papa

[@uchenwogu8612]

Empty skull

[@savorlesscontent4685]

@@eghoborosakpolor9596 lmao

[@savorlesscontent4685]

@@uchenwogu8612 lol

[@ramzi4515]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, lol even Hollywood movies about Africa, are waaaay better than Nollywood

[@sadanandapatel6123]

Where Africans are always represented as slaves or civil war fighters . It's better to have your own film industry than representing yourself stereotypically in Hollywood. Support from India.

[@Anna133199]

I don't have much experience with Nollywood as I've only watched one full movie and some fragments of other movies while in Ghana and they didn't seem great, but the way most Hollywood movies treat Africa and Africans is horrible. Nollywood seems at least better in showing African stories than Hollywood.

[@nigerdeltamirrortv9311]

ramzi45 yes...but IT'S OURS and we love it and proud of it. What does your country produce?

[@esanyeokotie5164]

Mumu pack well

[@isadore9793]

No one said nollywood is better than Hollywood,you tell your story about you continent and tell bad story about Africa, now nollywood is to tell the story of our continent,so get lost if you don't like it.