I have been meeting with the top Nollywood Director in his new base in Port Harcourt where he was one of the resource persons at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Port Harcourt Scrptwriting Workshop that was dominated by young women. NTA Port Harcourt is in search of new talents in scriptwiting and acting. They also had auditions for their upcoming soap opera that I wanted to recommend a female member of Nairaland, but she has not proved that she is serious to date.

Chika said that there is nothing new in Nollywood. Only the same rehashed old stories from the Nollywood Recycle Bin. Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO). And he is now working on films to take Nollywood to the next level. I mentioned Jetta Amata's feature "Amazing Grace" on 35mm and also Faruk Lasaki's "Changing Faces" on 35mm.

Jetta Amata is the most ambitious of the Amatas family in Nollywood. And I am sure that the daring young director can make a difference in Nollywood. Chika Onu agreed.

Osinachi06-05-2005, 07:59 AM
Jetta Amata deserves our commendation.
I don't think the young man was ignorant of the guidelines. He must have gone there to make contacts for future benefits.

As I said earlier in another post, the Nigerian films are coming.
Jetta Amata is a hardworking young director who knows what he is doing.
I met him once. Then, he was still a gangling teenager with a tall ambition. He has dreams and dreams make the man and the man makes the world to spin around on the big screen. The big picture shows more. Let us make big pictures!

Jetta, I raise my two thumbs to you!
http://www.nollywood.net/vbee/archive/index.php/t-227.html

We concluded with a mutual resolution to break away from the stagnant pools of Nollywood.
Because as at present, there is nothing new in Nollywood.

hmmmm, that's good man!!

What Nollywood really needs is a movie review service that will promote the "top ten" Nigerian films every week. This will make it easier for consumers to find the best movies in the market and encourage producers to do better.

Seun:

What Nollywood really needs is a movie review service that will promote the "top ten" Nigerian films every week. This will make it easier for consumers to find the best movies in the market and encourage producers to do better.

The Nollywood producer who was doing so on TV in the 90s has moved to Ghana and nobody has continued.

It won't be easy. Because to produce it will cost some money and most of the Nollywood marketers owe a lot. Chasing debtors and advertisers can be frustrating in Nigeria.

Nothing good is easy in life. If I succeed at something that is difficult, then I'll be rewarded financially.

The only reason why I haven't done what I said above is that I find Nollywood movies hard to watch!