2020 Nollywood in Hollywood kicks off online today
The fourth edition of the prestigious ‘Nollywood in Hollywood’ showcase starts today, with Nigeria’s 2021 Academy Award entry, ‘Milkmaid’.
The event will be online and accessible for free to movie fans all over the world. Fans will have a chance to interact with the stars and film makers of the films in a ‘question and answer’ segment that will follow every screening.
Fans can register and watch events at http://cinema.usc.edu/events/events.cfm?id=60163
“We had hoped to be in person this year but the realities of the covid-19 pandemic is keeping us online again, hopefully for the last time. Last year, we had the most fans ever from all over the world tuning in. We had people from places as far as Brazil and Pakistan watching. Hopefully, this year, we will do better and better and expand the reach of Nollywood”, says Maceo Willis, the director of operations.
Founded by a Nigerian-American, Hollywood-based film maker, Ose Oyamendan, as a forum to promote Nigerian films, talent and film industry to Hollywood and the world, the event has become a fixture on the Hollywood calendar.
The screening concludes on Saturday, with the screening of ‘Eyimofe’, one of Nigeria’s most honored films ever on the film festival circuit.
