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iREP 2012 ...Festival in Pictures
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iREP Festival, 2012
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SCENES FROM THE IREP INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2012
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PHOTOS: CHARLES OKOLO
African Cinema And the Frontiers Of Documentary
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(Being Keynote delivered by PROF JEAN-PAUL COLLYEN, director of the Centre For African Studies, Paris, at the formal opening of the iREP International Documentary Film Festival)
Nollywood videofilms, cinema and the frontiers of documentary”
Talking of Nollywood, I shall only deal here of English speaking (Igbo) Videofilms. I shall not speak about Yoruba or Hausa videofilms, which, of course are also very important. I got interested in these works through an experience I had in Accra. I was staying in Manthia Diawara’s house with another filmmaker coming from Senegal, Ben Dioganbey. Manthia, who is a famous Malian writer and moviemaker, was, at the time, teaching in the New York University center in Accra. I gave, myself, some classes, there.
As, in Accra, at the time, the temperature was very high, we could not really go to bed early and we were watching Africa cable, A South African TV channel that was broadcasting Nigerian films endlessly. Some of those films were of poor quality, but others were really interesting and we ended by knowing the names of the directors and of the actors. We started to develop a real taste for the genre. I shall advocate the idea today that Nollywood films tell a lot about social life in Lagos, about Nigeria, about Africa and about humanity in general. But first, I would like to make a point on the terms “fiction” and “documentary”.
What is fiction? The word has two meanings.
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