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Nigeria World's 2nd Biggest Film Producer
Wed May, 06 2009


Nollywood actors Ransom Noah and Segun Arinze performing on stage.

Nigeria passed Hollywood as the world's second-largest film producer after India's Bollywood, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said.

A UNESCO Institute for Statistics survey released this week said India's Bollywood film industry produced 1,091 feature-length films in 2006. In comparison, Nigeria's Nollywood moviemakers made 872 productions while the United States produced 485 major motion pictures.

"Film and video production are shining examples of how cultural industries, as vehicles of identity, values and meanings, can open the door to dialogue and understanding between peoples, but also to economic growth and development," UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura said in a statement. "This new data on film and video production provide yet more proof of the need to rethink the place of culture on the international political agenda."

The report also showed Japan produced 417 films in 2006, China 330, France 203, Germany 174, Spain 150, Italy 116, South Korea 110 and the United Kingdom 104.

UNESCO said one of the keys to Nollywood's success is Nigerian filmmakers' use of video instead of film, which reduces production costs.

The study showed, however, U.S. movies continue to dominate cinema admissions around the world. All of the top 10 films seen in Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Namibia, Romania and Slovenia in 2006 were U.S. made.

  


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  ( 16 comments)
On Thu Aug, 12 2010 05:40   by rufina
Continue to do movies for my dailu living. Once made a movie for the Rev Father showing me taking off my clothes. Yes I was naked, nude, I needed to pay for school feeding anf housing. Now I am married with child an dstill having trouble. I should not have to suffer. Willing to make video again Rufina 8033889981
On Thu Jul, 22 2010 06:00   by Ndi William
I want say thank,s to the people that era who're working hard, and please put more effort.
On Thu May, 20 2010 06:22   by benson c gold
am one of your fans,more grease to your elbows,keep it up guys,i want to be one of you but don't know how to meet with you. can you mail or call me? here..08076146830, bechelonent@yahoo.co.uk. will be happy if you recognize me trough this medium.i love you all.buy
On Wed Apr, 21 2010 07:12   by chi
i love u ramsey but just goes to show another reason why WE ARE NAIJA!!!!!! chaii ohhhhhhhhhh god bless nigeria
On Sat Apr, 17 2010 10:42   by debra
congratulation Arinse and Ramson Noah
On Tue Mar, 16 2010 10:53   by Jerome
The first five minutes is enough for me tell the whole story line in a Nollywood film, they are trying but they need to improve .
On Mon Mar, 08 2010 01:09   by Victor willie
It's an improvement, but i think that if there are to rate movies based on picture quality, sound quality and some of other things that makes a movie a movie, u'll see that we are nowhere. It's not just puoring movies into the market, we should really make every time and money people spend on movies worth it.
On Sun Jan, 10 2010 06:23   by Alex J.
I agree with all of them and I really like Nigerian accent not the accent which is faked into american accent! and everything else is good!
On Thu Dec, 10 2009 01:07   by ADEOLA OLAWALE
Hi just want to to tell the nigrias to pls try to make there screen and sometimes they are not always trying to be real most expecially should stop writting the same movies over and over again..thnks
On Fri Jul, 17 2009 07:41   by bunmi salami
I really think the so called producers need to sit up. The story line is always the same, the music most of the time is awful same tune. We need to keep it real and portray nigeria in a good light not just witches. And please lets use our ideas instead of copying an American version of a film. We need to go into deep reaserch before releasing films its not about the film count but the quality and reality that goes with a film. I bet we spend about max two months on a film set. where as our hollywood brothers can spend a year shooting a film, a year doing reaserch and other things. Please lets buckle up nigeria.
On Wed Jun, 24 2009 01:19   by BOLALA
NIGERIA MOVIE PRODUCER NEED TO PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO SOUND SYSTEM IN THEIR MOVIES, ALSO THEY SHOULD STOP THIS AMERICA FAKE ASENT AND TALK LIKE A REAL NIGERIA, AND STOP MAKING MOVIES THAT DON'T MAKE SENSE.THEN THEY COULD COMPARE THEMSELVES TO HOLLYWOOD.
On Wed May, 27 2009 07:32   by T Duru
It's sad to see how some elements of the Nigerian media waste time and space writing about insignificant issues instead of tackling the enormous social and political problems facing their country. I have never heard about The times of Nigeria prior to now, I stumbled into this site while searching for different stuff in the internet. I will expect that you encourage the young men and women working as filmmakers in Nigeria to learn the conventions of filmmaking before making them believe they are working in the second largest film industry in the world, which if you know anything about film, is false and deceiving. There is no doubt that the Nigerian film industry has an enormous potential for growth, but before that growth can come about, the Nigerian filmmaker has to first understand that filmmaking is an art that follows certain codes and conventions, and that it's a precious tool that can be used to affect serious changes on peoples mindset and perceptions if properly mastered. The
On Wed May, 20 2009 07:56   by Enitan Onikoyi
Nigeria film makers work on very poor topics instead of researching into issues of interest. There are too many films on religions, witches and armed robbers instead of real quality films. I do not know where they got the idea that Nigeria is the 2nd biggest film producers in the world. Is it after America or India. What we want is not how many films you produce, but the quality. As far as i am concern, Nigeria film makers are still local champions.
On Fri May, 15 2009 11:21   by Olubunmi Ahmadou
A good start as the Nigerian movie industry has yet to achieve global credence and validity. One way of achieving this is for producers to ensure consistent quality standard and control - theme not to digress, subtitles made simple and relevant, locations to vary and rhyme with theme and voice quality/tone and background music/score to be aired proportionately and location and costume to fit into conceptual film projection. We should remember 'Rome was not built in a day'. We're getting there and watching Nigerian movies abroad is the next best thing to cultural re-orientation/reintegration. A good start, even if it's 'mass production' and for real, all movie makers do it for the money until it becomes a passion - which profession looks not out for money?
On Mon May, 11 2009 11:41   by Okoduwa Stanley
Its not about being even the first biggest movie producer in the world rather,is this level of production backed up with quality.The movies that come out of the industry can be likened to ordinary drama acted in school platform and churches.Its a shame that a seemingly money spinning venture in other parts of the world cannot be replicated in Nigeria all because all we know is how to make money, forgetting that talents have to be continously harnessed to keep the industry afloat.shameeeeeeeee
On Mon May, 11 2009 03:41   by Chukwuemeka Akpapuna, Spain
Most Nigerian so called film makers are only in the business for money, a lot of them have proved to lack the talent necessary to keep the industry afloat. Lately, I always have the impression when watching a Nigerian Film that I have seen it before, the industry appeared to have reached its peak and it’s tumbling way down on a free lane. Nigerians have this unhealthy habit of rushing into a business because other people are doing it and because it is where people are currently making money from, and not because they have the talent to withstand the test of time. The organisation set up to represent the Nigerian film industry itself appears ignorant of its tasks and objectives. There should be a control board, set up to ensure that only quality products get to the market. I have gotten to see some movies produced in Nigeria with a creative quality of an end of term show organised by primary school pupils.

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