Managing Director of the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC), Afolabi
Adesanya said on Monday that more than 1,200 video movies are produced in
Nigeria annually.
Mr. Adesanya made this known at the opening ceremony of the first American Film
Week at the National Film Institute, Jos.
"In a given year, we produce between 1,000 and 1,200 video movies that are
officially registered by the National Films and Video Censors Board.
"We have several others which don't go through the Board. We have documentary
films that are not even censored and we don't also account for them,'' he said.
Mr. Adesanya compared the current production capacity to that of the 1970s and
1980s when the country only struggled to produce about five films annually,
saying that the current capacity was incredible.
He said that there were a lot of Nigerian stories that were potential films'
themes, adding that the resources and the global audience for Nigerian films
were also available.
Head of the US Mission in Nigeria, Anthony Eterno, said that the US was using
movies as a tool of public diplomacy to reach out to Nigerians.
Mr. Eterno, who noted that Nigeria's Nollywood was progressing in a way that it
did not need the assistance of the US, said that film production could aid a
country's economic growth and cultural integration.
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