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Abba T. Makama is a Nigerian writer, director, visual artist and filmmaker. He is known for directing Al-Jazeera's documentary on Nollywood (Nollywood: Something From Nothing), Green White Green and The Lost Okoroshi. He is the founder and the creative director of Osiris Film and Entertainment. His films focus on telling Nigerian stories to a global audience and illustrate how connected and similar the world is regardless of national boundaries. His work is largely inspired by dreams and Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious. His work also explores theme of classism, spirituality, tradition and in genres such as comedy, drama, mockumentary, satire and magical realism.
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| dbo:abstract | Abba T. Makama is a Nigerian writer, director, visual artist and filmmaker. He is known for directing Al-Jazeera's documentary on Nollywood (Nollywood: Something From Nothing), Green White Green and The Lost Okoroshi. He is the founder and the creative director of Osiris Film and Entertainment. His films focus on telling Nigerian stories to a global audience and illustrate how connected and similar the world is regardless of national boundaries. His work is largely inspired by dreams and Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious. His work also explores theme of classism, spirituality, tradition and in genres such as comedy, drama, mockumentary, satire and magical realism. Abba is a co-founding member of the Surreal 16 collective. Inspired by the Danish cinema movement Dogme 95, Surreal 16 was born from a mutual admiration by three Nigerian filmmakers (Makama, C.J Obasi and Micheal Omonua). They became disillusioned by the abundance of slapstick comedies and wedding films. The Collective set out to diversify output and encourage a new type of cinema. The collective wrote a manifesto containing sixteen rules and guidelines that govern the making of their films. The rules were announced during a panel at Africa International Film Festival 2017 after the screening of their first anthology film Visions. In 2021 Abba and the collective founded the S16 film festival, a platform for the new wave of African cinema that speaks the universal vocabulary of film. Juju Stories is three-part anthology film exploring juju (magical) stories rooted in Nigerian folklore and urban legend. Abba directed the second segment called "YAM". (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Abba T. Makama is a Nigerian writer, director, visual artist and filmmaker. He is known for directing Al-Jazeera's documentary on Nollywood (Nollywood: Something From Nothing), Green White Green and The Lost Okoroshi. He is the founder and the creative director of Osiris Film and Entertainment. His films focus on telling Nigerian stories to a global audience and illustrate how connected and similar the world is regardless of national boundaries. His work is largely inspired by dreams and Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious. His work also explores theme of classism, spirituality, tradition and in genres such as comedy, drama, mockumentary, satire and magical realism. (en) |
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