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Seyi Lasisi

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Seyi Lasisi is a Nigerian creative with an obsessive interest in writing and documenting about Nigerian and African cinema.

Will Red Circle Propel Bukky Wright Back to Mainstream Prominence?

Will Red Circle Propel Bukky Wright Back to Mainstream Prominence?

In 2016, Sola Sobowale, one of Nollywood’s veteran actors renowned for her intergenerational appeal, returned to the Nigerian film industry after nearly  two decades away. The film that triggered her career renaissance was Kemi Adetiba’s Wedding Party. Adetiba’s Kings of Boys, which was released on Netflix two years after Wedding Party, further strengthened Sobowale’s return […]

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After 8 years in development, Damilola Orimogunje’s “Dear Ajayi” Kicks Off Filming in Ibadan

Dear Ajayi,  Damilola Orimogunje’s second directorial work, has started principal photography in Ibadan.  After eight years of nurturing the script through an international development pipeline in Africa, Europe and North America, filming has officially commenced on Dear Ajayi, the much-anticipated second feature from award-winning Nigerian filmmaker Orimogunje. Dear Ajayi unfolds in the late 1990s in […]

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After 8 years in development, Damilola Orimogunje’s “Dear Ajayi” Kicks Off Filming in Ibadan

Chisom Ifeakandu’s “The Moral High Court” Tackles the  Near-Impossibility of Justice for Nigerian Women

Filmmaking, from a cultural and political perspective, is a filmmaker’s dull or blunt response to a question or concern. The question or concern might stem from the filmmaker’s personal reflection on social issues (think Old Nollywood’s didactic stories), from the compelling intention to address political and historical issues (think Tunde Kelani and Kunle Afolayan’s earliest […]

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Chisom Ifeakandu’s “The Moral High Court” Tackles the  Near-Impossibility of Justice for Nigerian Women

“Over The Bridge”: Tolu Ajayi’s Corporate Drama is Grounded in Unified Vision

Great stories aren’t the sole building block of great films. Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Billy Wilder’s The Apartment, Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, Boon Joon Ho’s Parasite, Celine Song’s Past Lives, Ema Edosio-Deelen’s Kasala!, Damilola Orimogunje’s For Maria Ebun Pataki and a host of others aren’t great films because they tell great stories, what […]

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“Over The Bridge”: Tolu Ajayi’s Corporate Drama is Grounded in Unified Vision

“The Yard”: Musa Jefferey David and Isaac Ayodeji Unpacks What it Means To Work in a Nigerian Writers’ Room

Nigerian screenwriters, Musa Jeffrey David and Isaac Ayodeji have probably written some of your favourite TV shows. Think Wura, Chronicles, Refuge, 10th Avenue, and recently The Yard, a 130-episode series currently showing on African Magic Showcase and Showmax. Currently in its 30th episode, the show has elicited responses on social media. The making of the […]

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“The Yard”: Musa Jefferey David and Isaac Ayodeji Unpacks What it Means To Work in a Nigerian Writers’ Room

How Screen Connect is Trying to Connect African Filmmakers with African Audience Across the Continent

When Marete Selvin, from Kenya, Mizero Kabano Yannick from Rwanda, and Cassandra Onwalu from Nigeria, applied for the Some Fine Day Pix and GIZ’s Moving Pictures’ MOVING PICTURES Incubator Programme in 2024, the idea for co-founding Screen Connect, their recently launched Pan-African distribution company hadn’t formed. As filmmakers and individuals already thinking about the distribution […]

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How Screen Connect is Trying to Connect African Filmmakers with African Audience Across the Continent
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