The "Noise Dilemma"—Reflections on Covering Africa's Fragmented, Uneven Film Scenes: On what it means to report on Africa’s film, TV, and digital ecosystems in an environment flooded with announcements, hype, and competing narratives. What follows is a candid assessment of the

I Used ChatGPT to Watch a Film. What I Learned About the Future of Criticism Can ChatGPT watch a film? And if so, what can it already "see," "hear," and process, and what might it soon be able to interpret? Akoroko ran a real-world experiment using ChatGPT’s live camera input

Spitting pure facts I’m afraid. So many stories fall into the gap of inauthenticity to copy paste what they see in western movies rather than do the work of recontextualizing it for the Nigerian realities we actually face.

God’s Wife (2024) Dir: Dika Ofoma Dp: Joe Penney

Sickle Cell Day hits different this year. We lost someone dear, a warrior whose love and strength helped carry this work. Today, we honour her. And all the warriors we’ve lost. We carry their stories. We keep going — for them, and for those still holding on. #WorldSickleCellDay

I would argue they aren’t storytellers, they’re business people. It requires a certain amount of love and devotion to consider someone a storyteller and a vast majority of them don’t love storytelling and filmmaking to read, watch, critically study and learn the genre’s.

What would life look like if we had weekly Netflix subscriptions? Today, we're learning about sachetization and its role in the consumption of media products. As always, link is in the comments 💛

I don't understand? Are the filmmakers altruistic? Is this a social movement? Will you get away from here with your winter boots!!!

I haven’t even scratched the surface of film criticism and I’ve been at it for like five years, please get out of my face.

#InPraiseOfCriticism...always!

Screen Connect launches its Pan-African film distribution platform with Tolu Ajayi's Over the Bridge premiering in Kenya and Rwanda, plans to distribute more films in more African territories. Read more about the initiative here. whatkeptmeup.com/nigerian-film-…

Nollywood really is filled with Sycophants. 🙂

One fundamental obstacle facing our film & TV industries—yet one that almost never comes up in convos—is that we approach the business of art & culture with a trader's mentality. So, if we do not see an avenue for a direct cash-for-goods exchange, we assume it means bad business.

And this is before you account for other key negatives like the skills dearth problem, the class prejudice problem, the region prejudice problem, and the impatience problem.

Criticism will always be important in the arts. The arts will always blossom in a place that questions why a thing should exist and what it says. There are many questions to be asked of artistic expression and sometimes in answering them, we discover that intention ≠ execution.

An awareness walk! Free genotype testing! Health talk and Mini-Quiz! Join us tomorrow morning!!!!🥳🥰🎉 #sicklecellevent #worldsicklecellday #CommunityEngagement

i barely read fiction so i refuse to watch movies at any speed other than 1x. moving pictures are my escape into imagined worlds, and i prefer to experience them exactly as the director intended.

This Sunday on Nollywood Film Club, in celebration of some Nollywood Films that have broken the chains of the Netflix geo-lock, we'll be discussing Baby Farm - available on Netflix wall wide 😩😩 Reserve your space here x.com/i/spaces/1mrxm…

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos (2024) Dir: Bisola Akinmuyiwa, Elijah Atinkpo, Mathew Cerf Dp: Leo Purman

I find myself surprisingly calm about this window. Because either we’ll get the moves done that we need to, or we’ll receive a pretty undeniable confirmation from the club’s leadership that their ambition is severely limited and we can change our emotional investment accordingly.