Lionhearts: Genevieve Nnaji and Kemi Adetiba's Vision

With directors like Kemi Adetiba and Genevieve Nnaji, women telling women’s stories is the saving grace that Nollywood never knew it needed. The business of filmmaking, like every aspect of our world since the inception of mass states, is very male-driven. Arguably, the biggest movie industries in the world, Hollywood, Nollywood, and Bollywood, have a formidable, ersatz founding father community. While the process of making a film is largely extensive and multi-crewed, the director has the c

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