Truth and Consequences: Documentaries and the Art of Manipulation
On the veracity of documentary filmmaking.
Film Industry
How to Make It in Hollywood When You’re Gay, Female, and Thirtysomething
Jen Tullock is ready for her moment. Is the moment ready for her?
A Journey Into the Righteous, Risk-Averse World of Faith-Based Films
How the Christian film industry works.
What Ever Happened To Brendan Fraser?
The disappearance of a once ubiquitous movie star.
Pirates and Traders
The DVD is still king in Lagos’ Alaba International Market for Electronics.
Excerpted from Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Junket in the City of Lights"
A movie star's press junket notes and observations.
I Can See Right Through You
Vampire movies, sex tapes, aging, and complicated relationships: new fiction from the great Kelly Link.
"It’s not much fun, telling a ghost story while you’re naked. Telling the parts of the ghost story that you’re supposed to tell. Not telling other parts. While the woman you love stands there with the person you used to be."
A Scorsese in Lagos
On the difficult challenges faced by an auteur in Nigeria’s burgeoning Nollywood film economy.
