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C. J. Obasi
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“I’ve always been interested in fantasy, Afrofuturism, all that. So when I started to do my research to see if there were any Nigerian writers who were writing material along those lines, Nnedi’s name came up. First of all, my reaction was shock that I didn’t know about her. I was like, ‘How do I reach out to her?’ From the description of all her work, it sounded right up my alley, the kind of story that I would really love to tell visually—alternative African stories that people just don’t see.”
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“It wasn’t until a mutual friend got me her email address that I sent her a very long email introducing myself. And to my surprise she replied back with an even longer email. We just pretty much struck off from there.”
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“Merging ju-ju with science fiction, merging Nigerian mythology with technology and science fiction—those are my favourite things.”
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“You need funds to make it work. I knew that I would have to do it on a smaller scale, go for the short stories instead. I mentioned it to Nnedi and she said, ‘That sounds like a great idea,’ so she sent me a catalogue of her short stories.”
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“I read every single one of them. They are all amazing; they blew me away, but something about ‘Hello, Moto’ just stood out. Because it had this quirkiness to it. Three women who create magical wigs, of all things. Wigs that grant the wearer supernatural abilities. It’s not something I’ve ever imagined in my wildest imagination.”
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“I knew I wanted to make that. She said, ‘Yeah, sure, let’s make it happen,’ so we started the process of getting the option rights. That was earlier this year, about three months of back-and-forth between my company and her agency. And after that, we started to look for funding to get it made. That wasn’t easy.”
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“In the end we were able to get two other production companies on board. Small production companies, but visionary people who want to do new things. They are both Nigerian-owned companies, with one based in Canada. Barely three years old.”
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“So when the cinematographer stepped onto location, he knew how he was going to light. He didn’t have to do a lot of figuring things out.”
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“Both the so-called old and new Nollywood coexist in Nigeria at the moment. You have guys who make movies that go to cinema, and the guys whose movies go straight to DVD. The cinema guys are struggling to get distribution beyond cinema.”
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“Normally, they would do a cinema release and after a while release the DVD. But there’s a disconnect between cinema and DVD. Some of the DVD distributors are pirates. The straight-to-video guys have deals. He says to a distributor, I need five million to make a movie. It’s nobody’s business how much it really costs to make. So you make it for four million instead and the difference goes to you as profit.”
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“There was a time in Nigeria when the cinemas closed. Now they are coming back. But we are still struggling with the audience. The cinema-going audience is not the same as the DVD audience. The cinema-going audience wants to watch Iron Man 5. They don’t want to watch Nigerian films. Also, because Nigerian films don’t necessarily appeal to their sensibilities.”
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“The meetings we had even before the shoot, my own planning after the script meant we could work quickly. I had a sixteen-page treatment of the film, breaking it down to every element—visual and audio, cinematography, look and feel, make-up, hair, and audio elements with references, picture references and video references. All that was distributed to team members. I also functioned as the art director. I wanted a particular look. I wanted things to be built a certain way, so I worked with a set designer, carpenters, and painters. I also worked with concept artists who drew every single thing. I would give them sketches. The guy would draw on paper, and we sent that to a 3D model artist. And that was what we sent to everyone. Everyone knew what we were building, how we were going to light.”
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