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Nollywood film editor Valentine Chukwuma is the industry's highest grosser. Supplied.

Inside the Cutting Room of Nollywood’s Highest-Grossing Film Editor

Behind Funke Akindele’s 7.2-billion-naira box office dominance is Valentine Chukwuma, her top editor at Scene One Productions. In an industry that overlooks underdog talents, the 31-year-old, who once made skits to escape poverty, has cut five of its six most profitable films of all-time.
Oluwatobi Adedayo

January 1, 2026

Our Top Stories of 2025

Longform Profiles on Wole Soyinka and curator Chude Jideonwo, a feature on South African poetry, an essay on an Oscar-winning film, interviews with indie filmmakers, and more: the defining stories of our fifth year.
Otosirieze
Taiwo Egunjobi - The Fire and the Moth

September 12, 2025

Announcing the African Film Press (AFP) Critics Prize

African Film Press
African Film Press founders (L-R): Tambay Obenson (Akoroko), Jennifer Ochieng (Sinema Focus), Ikeade Oriade (What Kept Me Up). PHOTO CREDIT African Film Press/David Wambua.

July 8, 2025

Taiwo Egunjobi’s Cinema of the Trapped

In grave dramas of styled minimalism, the Ibadan-born director constructs harsh worlds of dangerous dreams, in which characters are caught up in greed and violence.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji
Taiwo Egunjobi profiled in Open Country Mag

June 24, 2025

His Style Is Symbolist: “Afro Contemporary Symbolism”

Grief led Uwana Anthony to make his short film Everything Must End. His style is “a movement and a cause for change in our approach to pursuing knowledge.”
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji
Uwana Anthony. Supplied.

May 27, 2025

She Makes Humane and Horror Shorts

As founder of the Africa International Horror Film Festival (AIHFF), the first such platform in West Africa and second in the continent, Nneoha Ann Aligwe believes that the genre “allows us to confront” the “darkness within us.” And courage matters to her, hence her documentary Born Different.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji
Nneoha Ann Aligwe for OCM. Supplied.

May 19, 2025

In His Short Films, the Drama Is in the Mundane

Guided by his “Igbo awakening,” Dika Ofoma sets his brief features — God’s Wife, A Quiet Monday, and A Japa Tale, among them — in southeastern Nigeria, with characters, often women, whose day-to-day lives, he argues, are “interesting enough.”
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji
Dika Ofoma by Rachel Seidu

May 13, 2025

She Got Her Start by Asking. Now She Runs Her Own Shows.

Not wanting to be boxed in, Fatima Binta Gimsay moves from television to short films. Her work includes Fine Girls, Omozi, and Ijo. “The challenge on the indie side of things will always be money,” she said.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji
Fatima Binta Gimsay. Supplied. For OCM.

April 15, 2025

The 10 Best Acting Performances of the Year

From father figures and bad sons to frustrated wives and fierce lovers: our second annual list of the film and TV performances that elevated stories in 2024.
Otosirieze
Open Country Mag: The 10 Best Acting Performances of 2024

January 1, 2026

Taiwo Egunjobi - The Fire and the Moth

Our Top Stories of 2025

Longform Profiles on Wole Soyinka and curator Chude Jideonwo, a feature on South African poetry, an essay on an Oscar-winning film, interviews with indie filmmakers, and more: the defining stories of our fifth year.
Otosirieze

September 12, 2025

African Film Press founders (L-R): Tambay Obenson (Akoroko), Jennifer Ochieng (Sinema Focus), Ikeade Oriade (What Kept Me Up). PHOTO CREDIT African Film Press/David Wambua.

Announcing the African Film Press (AFP) Critics Prize

African Film Press

July 8, 2025

Taiwo Egunjobi profiled in Open Country Mag

Taiwo Egunjobi’s Cinema of the Trapped

In grave dramas of styled minimalism, the Ibadan-born director constructs harsh worlds of dangerous dreams, in which characters are caught up in greed and violence.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

June 24, 2025

Uwana Anthony. Supplied.

His Style Is Symbolist: “Afro Contemporary Symbolism”

Grief led Uwana Anthony to make his short film Everything Must End. His style is “a movement and a cause for change in our approach to pursuing knowledge.”
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 27, 2025

Nneoha Ann Aligwe for OCM. Supplied.

She Makes Humane and Horror Shorts

As founder of the Africa International Horror Film Festival (AIHFF), the first such platform in West Africa and second in the continent, Nneoha Ann Aligwe believes that the genre “allows us to confront” the “darkness within us.” And courage matters to her, hence her documentary Born Different.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 19, 2025

Dika Ofoma by Rachel Seidu

In His Short Films, the Drama Is in the Mundane

Guided by his “Igbo awakening,” Dika Ofoma sets his brief features — God’s Wife, A Quiet Monday, and A Japa Tale, among them — in southeastern Nigeria, with characters, often women, whose day-to-day lives, he argues, are “interesting enough.”
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

May 13, 2025

Fatima Binta Gimsay. Supplied. For OCM.

She Got Her Start by Asking. Now She Runs Her Own Shows.

Not wanting to be boxed in, Fatima Binta Gimsay moves from television to short films. Her work includes Fine Girls, Omozi, and Ijo. “The challenge on the indie side of things will always be money,” she said.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

April 15, 2025

Open Country Mag: The 10 Best Acting Performances of 2024

The 10 Best Acting Performances of the Year

From father figures and bad sons to frustrated wives and fierce lovers: our second annual list of the film and TV performances that elevated stories in 2024.
Otosirieze

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