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Nollywood Babylon
20081 h 13 min 57 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Ben AddelmanSamir Mallal
Production: Ben AddelmanSamir MallalAdam Symansky (National Film Board of Canada)Galilé Marion-GauvinMarcel JeanRavida Din
Script: Ben AddelmanSamir Mallal
Produced by AM Pictures in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.
Nollywood Babylon is a feature documentary about the
explosive popularity of Nigeria's movie industry.
The film drops viewers into the chaos of Lagos' Idumota market. Here, among
the bustling stalls, films are sold and unlikely stars are born.
Unfazed by low budgets, enterprising filmmakers create a brash,
inventive and wildly popular form of B-Movie that has Nigerians
Nollywood-obsessed. In these films, voodoo and magic infuse urban stories,
reflecting the collision of traditional mysticism and modern culture that
Nigerians experience every day.
Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal, present an electric vision of a modern
African metropolis and a revealing look at the powerhouse that is Nigerian
cinema.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > AfricaArts and Culture
- Film and Video Arts > Film and Video Making
- Diversity > Black Studies
- Social Studies > Communities in Canada/WorldContemporary Issues
- History and Citizenship Education > Culture and Currents of Thought (1500-present)
Credits
- writer
- Ben Addelman
- Samir Mallal
- director
- Ben Addelman
- Samir Mallal
- producer
- Ben Addelman
- Samir Mallal
- Adam Symansky
- editor
- Annie Ilkow
- associate producer
- Don Lobel
- original music
- Olivier Alary
- executive producer
- Galilé Marion-Gauvin
- Marcel Jean
- Ravida Din
- cinematography
- Ben Addelman
- Samir Mallal
- sound
- Ben Addelman
- Samir Mallal
- production manager
- David Poulin
- location manager
- Tope Idowu
- driver
- Karim Idowu
- archival research
- Elizabeth Klinck
- rights clearances
- Elizabeth Klinck
- sound editor
- Don Ayer
- re-recording mixer
- Serge Boivin
- digital editing technician
- Danielle Raymond
- online editor
- Françoise Laprise
- assistant editor
- Marie Maquaire
- Lucile de Peslouan
- Maël Le Tolguenec
- opening title sequence
- Ottoblix
- opening animation
- Ottoblix
- titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- post-production coordinator
- Mélanie Boudreau Blanchard
- Brigitte Sénéchal
- production coordinator
- Christine Williams
- transcription
- Raoul Chacar
- Hélène Laporte-Rawji
- marketing manager
- Moira Keigher
- publicist
- Pat Dillon
- administration
- Ottoblix
- studio administrator
- Dan Emery