{"id":3461,"date":"2013-10-22T15:24:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2013-10-22T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:24:10","slug":"aimee-corrigan-and-colin-maclay-on-the-new-nollywood-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2013\/10\/22\/aimee-corrigan-and-colin-maclay-on-the-new-nollywood-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Aimee Corrigan and Colin Maclay on The New Nollywood [AUDIO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In less than two decades Nollywood (Nigeria&#8217;s booming movie industry) has grown to an estimated value of $250 million, employing over a million people and producing over 1000 films each year. Nollywood&#8217;s movies have an audience of millions in Nigeria, throughout Africa and around the world &#8212; from Bombay to Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>But the industry faces big challenges from limited financing opportunities to rampant piracy. Today, in an effort to overcome these challenges, leading filmmakers in Nigeria consider themselves part of a growing movement they call \u201cNew Nollywood,&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Aimee Corrigan &#8212; Co-Director of Nollywood Workshops, a hub for filmmakers in Lagos, Nigeria &#8212; and Colin M. Maclay &#8212; the Managing Director of the Berkman Center &#8212;  discuss increased access to new technology and equipment, training, new sources of financing, and alternative distribution that are helping to make Nollywood the envy of filmmakers around the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/Internet%20and%20Society%202007\/tiny_thumbs\/45px-Sound-icon.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"45\" height=\"34\" \/> Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2013-10-22_nollywood\/2013-10-22_nollywood.mp3\">MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or download the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2013-10-22_nollywood\/2013-10-22_nollywood.ogg\">OGG audio format!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info on this event <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheon\/2013\/10\/nollywood\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In less than two decades Nollywood (Nigeria&#8217;s booming movie industry) has grown to an estimated value of $250 million, employing over a million people and producing over 1000 films each year. Nollywood&#8217;s movies have an audience of millions in Nigeria, throughout Africa and around the world &#8212; from Bombay to Brooklyn. But the industry faces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}