Nollywood After School Filmmaking workshop
Hsiu Chang
===This idea is a re-iteration of an organization call Zumix
FROM: http://www.zumix.org/about/history
Like a lot of good ideas, ZUMIX started in someone's living room. Co-Founders Bob Grove and current Executive Director Madeleine Steczynski founded ZUMIX in 1991 as a response to Boston’s worst wave of youth violence. ZUMIX began as a summer songwriting program with 24 youth, $200, and the simple idea that giving youth something to be passionate about could transform lives and elevate communities.
Our programming quickly expanded. In 1993 we created a free outdoor Summer Concert Series in order to serve the broader community. Today, our year-round events are organized to provide East Boston residents with access to top-quality arts and cultural events.
Today ZUMIX serves over 400 youth per year through after-school and summer programming and 450 through in-school partnerships. Over 6,000 additional adults, children, and families attend our community events and festivals.
100% high school graduation rate of ZUMIX students vs. 80% Average Boston high school graduation rate
Hsiu Chang volunteer on the financial committee for ZUMIX, and he has seen firsthand how energized the students are when recording and publishing their own CD. This model can be transferred to Niger Delta. He remember when he was young, a lot of his friends want to be involved in pop culture such as singing or movie star. This can be used as a incentive for kids to stay in school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Nigeria
Nigeria has a 20 years old film industry call Nollywood. It is the 3rd largest in the world, releasing 20 to 30 films a week. Sometimes a movie is shot in just 1 week.
- Empowerment - Chico Ejiro, Mr. Prolific, famous director said in the documentary “Welcome to Nollywood” that Nollywood is thriving because it is storytelling from African perspective. It gives local voice, and it is not Hollywood fantasy. Nigerian prefer these home movies. It does not need international aid. This industry is able to grow without government support, earn $400 million from 1997 to 2007
- Low amount of funding - There are already a lot of equipment’s and film making knowledge in Nigeria. It is the 3rd largest film making country in the world, and hopes to one day surpass Hollywood. Many regional investors want to get a piece of the action. It costs $20,000 to make a film, average direct to DVD film sells 50,000 copies for $2 each, netting $80,000.
- Education – Making a film utilize full spectrum of education from writing, presentation, and kinesthetic learning. Student would be motivated to do well in school in order to learning how to write script, perform music, write sound tracks, mix sound, use computer equipment to edit, repair camera and microphone…etc
- Employment - Film is a great revenue generator and it will increase employment rate. Adults can be hired with training the kids how to act, edit film. Uneducated adults can do manual labors and act as background character. Locals definitely will take ownership in telling story about their own culture.
- Community involvement – end of year film festival.
- Partners. There are NGO involved with Nollywood whom we can partner wit. One makes educational documentaries. NGO use famous actor to reach out to children on the street
- Address Apathy – Nollywood is already widely accepted
- 18 month – In the film “Welcome to Nollywood”, filmmaker Chico boast he can make a film in 3 days. This is definitely scalable, from small production to big budget movie.
- Metric – because each film is a physical production, at the end of 18 month, we can see how many films is produced, how much income is generated, and how many job is created because of that.
Nick Zabriskie
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