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Summary
Nigeria's film industry, Nollywood, is the third-largest in the world--an unstoppable economic and cultural force that has taken the continent by storm and is now bursting beyond the borders of Africa.
Good for
- Date night
- Friends night
- Party vibe
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+12)
Critics 83Audiences 71GoodWatch 76
Tomatometer83%
Audience score78%
Letterboxd · 375 ratings3.4/5
IMDb6.7
Running time
1 h 14 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −22 min on the typical 96
typical 9674Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 92 countries
+82Released
2009
July 3, 2009
17 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- Canada
Directing · 2
- Samir Mallal Director, Writer, Producer, Sound, Cinematography
- Ben Addelman Director, Writer, Producer, Sound, Cinematography
Production · 13
- Marcel Jean Executive Producer
- Galilé Marion-Gauvin Executive Producer
- Ravida Din Executive Producer
- Adam Symansky Producer
- Mélanie Boudreau Blanchard Post Production Coordinator
- Don Lobel Associate Producer
Camera · 1
- Dannielle Raymond Digital Imaging Technician
Editing · 5
- Annie Ilkow Editor
- Marie Maquaire Assistant Editor
- Lucile de Peslouan Assistant Editor
- Maēl Le Tolguenec Assistant Editor
- Françoise Laprise Online Editor
Sound · 3
- Olivier Alary Original Music Composer
- Serge Boivin Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Don Ayer Sound Editor
Art · 1
- Gaspard Gaudreau Title Designer
Other crew · 3
- Karim Idowu Driver
- Raoul Chacar Transcriptions
- Hélène Laporte-Rawji Transcriptions
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