Big Brother Naija’s former housemate Pere Egbi has compared Nollywood to the South African movie industry.
On the micro-blogging platform Twitter, now known as X, Pere said that South Africans are ahead of Nigerians when it comes to film production, storytelling, filmmaking, and work ethics.
Pere, added that though no offense to his Nollywood colleagues, they need to collaborate.
“No offense to my Nollywood colleagues but you see South Africa, they are ahead of us o when it comes to film production, story telling, film making, work ethics, name it. They are ahead. We need to collaborate!”.
Concurring with him, one mr_cowann wrote, “Nigeria is 15/100 Southy is 85/100
One Ksolo_hitz wrote, “Nollywood stories are alike, and one can easily tell how the story will end
One Karo_Okogbe wrote, “This is not even to be argued. All facts, but, we dey ry for Netflix movies sha
One Zamani Michael wrote, “100 steps ahead abeg. SA films are Hollywood standard
One princesshelenmusifiwa wrote, “Since long time now, Abi I never knew ni?
One Priscillaojeh wrote, “He’s right. Their storyline is fire
One official_fancorner wrote, “South Africa nah Hollywood standard“.
A few weeks back, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde lamented the industry’s condition, comparing it to Hollywood and calling for structure. The legendary actress revealed that she had been working in Hollywood for 4 years and gets monthly residuals. Meanwhile, she got no residuals in Nollywood, where she spent 30 years and did 310 projects.
Filmmaker Mary Njoku questioned the benefits of joining Nollywood guilds and associations. The wife of Iroko TV boss revealed that a budding filmmaker asked her about the benefits of joining the guilds, and she couldn’t give a clear answer.
Sometimes back, media personality, Daddy Freeze had tackled Nkem Owoh for commending the efforts of Nollywood practitioners in making our movies highly competitive with foreign movies. Freeze stated that his opinion was untrue as Nollywood is still way behind. Urging the veteran to tell the truth, he opined that Nkem Owoh’s thoughts are a representation of an idealized vacuum.
Veteran Nollywood actor Kanayo Kanayo had called out Nollywood filmmakers who run to the steaming giant platform YouTube for ruining the foundation of the movie industry by creating low-quality content.
Similarly, Yoruba actress Debbie Shokoya had cried out to her colleagues who produce low-quality unworthy movies on the giant streaming app, YouTube. She decried the rate at which people condemn the Yoruba film genre and how she was able to confirm the accusations. She encouraged her colleagues to change the narrative about the Yoruba industry and allow every department for their job.