I just came across and article from Tuesday in 24|7 about Nollywood titled Strife and poverty fail to stem $700m Nigerian film industry. They interviewed Peace Aniyam-Fiberesima (google says it is Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima), a Nigerien producer for the article. I love her quotes!
Quote 1
Digital technology has helped us a lot, developing the quality, and the equipment. We’ve been able to show that we can drive an industry by just shooting on a digital camera and editing on a laptop.
Quote 2
…Many of the international festivals do not accept films other than celluloid. We are moving to the digital age and the world is at an economic crunch; how many people who want to make films and express their creativity can afford to wait forever to get huge amount of funding to their projects.
Yes! I’ve said it in the past and I’ll say it again: If there is a market that would be great for an online film festival that could have global reach, this is it. Anyway back to work & reading the news. I just didn’t want to lose these quotes.