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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.

“To Kill a Monkey” Shines on the Surface, Stumbles in the Script

“To Kill a Monkey” Shines on the Surface, Stumbles in the Script

Nigerians are united in their exhibitionist and exaggerative tendencies. The cultural and social conditioning of the Nigerian society makes living a solitary and modest lifestyle impossible. Parties, even intimate ones, must be exaggerated, music must be chaotically high, clothes must carry markings of wealth even if said wearer isn’t wealthy. Thus, public display is celebrated […]

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Taiwo Egunjobi’s “The Fire and The Moth” Reiterates the Transnational Posture of Cinema

The Fire and The Moth Nollywood filmmakers, like their foreign peers, aren’t free from the clutches of influences. Tapping inspiration from various sources, including literature, other films, and cultural narratives, titles like  The Matrix (1999)  loosely inspired by Ghost in the Shell (1995), Inception (2010) inspired by Paprika (2006) and The Lion King (1994) loosely […]

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1 month ago

Taiwo Egunjobi’s “The Fire and The Moth” Reiterates the Transnational Posture of Cinema

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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2 months ago

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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2 months ago

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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2 months ago

“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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2 months ago

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