Let's Talk Movies
Let's Talk Movies
Filmmakers are known to often wear multiple hats by working in many departments, from producing to directing. Emmanuel Izuoba is a Nollywood filmmaker who has had different roles since he started, and he does not plan to slow down any…
In the first scene of the 1596 play, The Merchant of Venice, one of the main characters, Antonio, likens the world to a stage: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;A stage where every man must play a…
It has been years — five or seven, I can’t recall, since I read TJ Benson’s Tea — a short story about two migrants whose only medium of communication, for a while, was their eyes, hands and other body parts.…
There is a popular saying that “a film is made three times: first in the screenplay, next in production and finally, in the edit”. Every film that was ever made was first created in the mind of the writer. A…
There is something visually and mentally appealing about Atoka’s opening scene. The scene is set and shot on a mountaintop, far from the bedlam of modernity. This scene later evolves into a poetic sequence that introduces the film’s major cast…