Now, I'm calling on all Nigerian Indie film Makers to use the edict of DOGMAS 95 to shoot indie movies like its propounders. Lars Von Trier is a god, The Idiot really made my day and I wonder why I couldn't find guys like...
Don't mind me, I talking daring film makers actually making good video apart from porn and music video,
Don't mind me, I talking daring film makers actually making good video apart from porn and music video,
To be frank, there aren't that many young film makers making poetic cinema, nor do we have an award in that category for film in this country.
And it doesn't help film making as people get discouraged by the sheer size of the budget to make the simplest film and forget that Tangerine as movie was short entirely on an iphone.
And it doesn't help film making as people get discouraged by the sheer size of the budget to make the simplest film and forget that Tangerine as movie was short entirely on an iphone.
A lot of android phones are the equivalent of some of the videocamera that were used by these pioneers in Denmark in the 90s.
All you need is a good story, new fresh plots and there are lot of playwrights, looking for people to take on their project, You go on Nairaland you find interesting stories that could be made into good movies.
This gives opportunities not just for a young director but for new actors as well, Nollywood keeps playing it safe shuffling the same faces and washed actors in their movies, it's a tired affair.
Sod the budget, get a group of guys that are interesting, with the amount of energy we put into our porn production, we could make home made movies like Lars and Thomas Vinterberg did.
You just need to be innovative, get the right idea and you can be on your way to winning award Internationally.
You don't have to use a big setting, you could use a car, a bus, a bus station, an abandoned train, a market place, an empty church and so on, Just make sure your dialogue and theme are on point, hot, fresh stuff.
Sod the budget, get a group of guys that are interesting, with the amount of energy we put into our porn production, we could make home made movies like Lars and Thomas Vinterberg did.
You just need to be innovative, get the right idea and you can be on your way to winning award Internationally.
You don't have to use a big setting, you could use a car, a bus, a bus station, an abandoned train, a market place, an empty church and so on, Just make sure your dialogue and theme are on point, hot, fresh stuff.
All you have to do is to take time to watch the Cinema of Dogma 95, learn their styles, camera angles and adapt it to your own innovation and voila...
We are tired of funny videos, I personally am tired of skits, Plus you have all these themes around you.
In Nigeria we have problems of repression, sexual orientation, poverty, vitriolic Christianity, dogmatic Islam, Matricide in the North, Kidnapping on our road, Clone Presidency, Pastor Worship, Corruption, Miseducation, Missed chances and altered destinies, the list is endless.
Create a plot, a dialogue of at least 56 minutes, a setting, it might even be a cafeteria in the university, and you havve yourself a movie. Your first movie, could go on to be your best movie all with your phone.
Create a plot, a dialogue of at least 56 minutes, a setting, it might even be a cafeteria in the university, and you havve yourself a movie. Your first movie, could go on to be your best movie all with your phone.
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