Nigeria: Shooting it Like a Woman

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning screen director Tope Oshin celebrates a new generation of Nigerian women film-makers who are currently reinventing Nollywood, the largest and most prolific film industry in Africa. She explores their distinctive approach to telling screen stories that better represent women’s lives and aspirations in Nigeria today.

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0:00.0	From the BBC World Service, welcome to the latest edition of the documentary
0:05.4	podcast. Every week we bring you a range of stories from our presenters and
0:10.1	reporters across the world. Please do rate the documentary on your podcast app and leave a comment.
0:16.6	Let us know what you think. Welcome to Lagos, the home of the largest and most prolific film industry in Africa.
0:25.0	But this is Nollywood, not Hollywood.
0:28.0	We don't have large studios and sound stages
0:31.0	and almost every film here is shot on location but it's always tight but we still
0:36.0	manage to make hundreds of films every month and though women have always had a strong
0:41.6	presence in front of the cameras, more of us are now getting behind
0:46.2	the cameras too.
0:47.2	All right, are we ready guys?
0:49.2	Actors ready, camera, sounds...
0:51.8	My name is Tope Ocein and I have been a screen director for 10 years.
0:57.0	During that time I've seen a blossoming of female directing talent.
1:01.0	In this BBC World Service documentary, I want to celebrate some of the
1:06.4	trailblazers who have been winning awards and audiences in Nigeria and
1:11.0	challenging gender stereotypes along the way.
1:13.6	Slate please.
1:14.6	This is Nigeria, shooting it like a woman.
1:19.4	In three, two, one, action.
1:23.0	Action.
1:44.0	A la-a-market. Alabam markets, a huge sprawling Warren of crowded alleyways in the west of Lagos is where you can buy everything from goods to the latest electronics. In the streets you find stall after stall selling hundreds of film DVDs
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