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A journey to the heart of humanity - What Christopher taught me this week. (opens the original)
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This week I went to watch the movie everyone is talking about But no one says good things about.At least no one around me.Until now.So why did I go? And what do I think of it? Here’s how it went down. Made especially for iMax screens, we wanted the full experience. The closest iMax screen was a forty minutes drive from us.That didn’t stop us .By now you must have guessed what movie we were going to see .Yes , at first I didn’t wanna go - everyone was saying how disappointing it is. But a part of
The race is on! The question is who is racing. (opens the original)
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*Last time on Nollywood Nexus, we traced Nigeria’s Oscar journey from Lionheart -the historic first attempt by Genevieve Nnaji and co , that exposed the gaps in understanding the Academy’s requirements on a foreign film Oscar, to Mai Martaba, by Prince Daniel, which represented a more deliberate effort to position Nigerian cinema for global recognition.The biggest lesson from that journey was that entering the Oscar conversation and competing in it are two very different things.That distinction
From Lionheart to Mai Martaba: Why Nigeria's Oscar Conversation Is Finally Changing (opens the original)
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When Nigeria made its first attempt at the Academy Awards in 2019, it wasn't just submitting a film, it was announcing that Nollywood was ready to compete on cinema's biggest stage.The film was Lionheart, directed by Genevieve Nnaji.It should have been a landmark moment. Instead, it became a lesson.Just weeks after its submission to the Best International Feature Film category, Lionheart was disqualified by the Academy because more than half of its dialogue was in English. At the time, the categ
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