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Nollywood and the digital age

December 18 08

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.

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Things Never Change

December 16 08

I enjoy how separated we are from the past.  We always think we are doing something new and out there.  We are convinced that time passing = progress, and never look or discuss evidence to the contrary.  As a teenager, I loved old and foreign films.   When Bravo used to show them uncut, I would record them on VHS tapes and watch them over and over again.  When Criterion came out with DVDs, I had my own nice mini collection.  One of the films I always heard about and really wanted to see was M.  When I finally saw it, I was shocked.  The news had made it seem like perversion, kidnapping and murder were all modern phenomenons that were out of control… yet, here in 1931 was a film that was basically the image of dispair that was being projected on the news every night at 11 pm.  As a teenager, that was pretty eye opening for me.

Fast forward to now…  I did a post on Ebony/Jet putting their archives online over at Black Web 2.0.  The ability to archive and search with Google as the tool is something I think is monumental, and I am so happy that more and more archive databases are being put online and searchable like this.  Anyway, since they were added, I have spent some time going through the Jet archives from the 50s so far.  Can I just say we are still having the same discussions.   There were tons of articles on sexuality, including homosexuality.  Issues with cover stories relating to black men with white women, age and love, mixed twins (two different fathers) etc.  It leads me to believe that these are just human discussions.  I think we will continue to have them indefinitely, the only thing that will change is the medium… and the medium makes it more dynamic and open (at least that seems to be the trend so far).

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Be Kind Rewind

July 5 08

Happy Belated 4th of July.  We did absolutely nothing for the holiday.  However, we did finally get to see Be Kind Rewind.  I was a little bit disappointed.  I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was apparently a little bit more than what it was.  Not that it wasn’t enjoyable, I just felt myself zoning at some points.  I’ve seen some people say that it would work better as a short, and I think I agree.  I liked the concept, just not as a full length film.  Now I need to figure out if there are any other movies that I want to watch.  I am thinking Lars and the Real Girl?

Oh, this past week was only semi-successful on the meditations front, so it’s the same ones for next week.  And I need to work on staying in a positive mind set.

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