So What is Old and New Nollywood?

So What is Old and New Nollywood?

From Guerilla Filmmaking of the 1990s To the Hollywood Standards  Filmmaking of the 2000s

What defined and distinguished Old #Nollywood and New Nollywood is not the social class of the Nigerian society, but the criteria for the cinema,  requirements for international film festivals and the international standards of #Netflix. These criteria compelled the filmmakers in Nolllywood to improve the quality of their movies by using modern digital cinema cameras and templates of Hollywood film and TV productions. 

Majority of the Nigerian middle class and upper class still sneer at Nolllywood movies as can be seen by the surveys for the most watched channels on DStv and Netflix. Besides Nolllywoodd, #Kannywood, the predominantly Muslims Hausa language film industry of northern Nigeria is accepted by the majority of the Hausas and Fulanis who are Muslims and are not influenced by American and Western European sociocultural lifestyles which are often seen in the New Nolllywood  movies influenced by Hollywood and Western education and culture.

- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

Publisher/Editor, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR ® Series. 

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