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Michael L. Best
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Full Summary: Nollywood comes to the Georgia Institute of Technology a film screening and panel with the film producer, director, stars, and more.
Nollywood Film Screening: Memories of the HeartNollywood comes to the Georgia Institute of Technology: A film screening and panel with the film producer, director, stars, and more.
November 16, 2011
7:00 PM
Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center Ballroom
800 Spring St., NW Atlanta, GA 30308
The screening will be followed by a panel with Emem Isong, Producer; Desmond Elliot, Director; Monalisa Chinda, starring cast member; Zik Zulu Okafor, President, Association of Movie Producers moderated by Prof. Raymond Akuwle, President, Digital Bridge Institute. The welcome will be by the Honorable Geoffrey Teneilabe, Consul-General, Consulate of Nigeria; and Jacqueline J. Royster, Dean, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech
Free and Open to the Public
All are welcome, please confirm your seat by clicking here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/965RV2W
A project of New Media Nollywood in cooperation with the FutureMedia Fest and supported by the GVU Center and Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), and Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech, and the World Bank.
A delegation of high level Nigerian film scholars, practitioners, and Nollywood movie stars will descend upon Georgia Tech for two weeks from November 14-25. The occasion is New Media Nollywood, a program of workshops, screenings, and film shoots, headed by professor Michael Best.
The Nigerian film industry, colloquially known as Nollywood, is the world’s most prolific movie producer. The industry produces around 40 new movies a week and has an enormous financial impact on Nigeria, as the country’s second largest employer.
Though the Nigerian film industry is fast, innovative, and digital, it has not yet fully embraced new media technologies, such as games and social media. New Media Nollywood will examine today's relationship between Nollywood and these technologies and then work to innovate for the future of the industry
Questions? Email Prof. Michael L. Best: mikeb@cc.gatech.edu
