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Nollywood Surpasses Hollywood As World’s 2nd Largest
Film Producer
Posted: May 14, 2009

Lagos (Nigeria) - The Nigerian film industry has overtaken Hollywood and closed
the gap on India, the global leader in the number of movies produced each year,
according to a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) report released this month (May, 2009).

According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) survey, Bollywood – as the
Mumbai-based film industry is known – produced 1,091 feature-length films in
2006. In comparison, Nigeria’s moviemakers, commonly known as Nollywood,
came out with 872 productions – all in video format – while the United States
produced 485 major films.

“Film and video production are shining examples of how cultural industries, as
vehicles of identity, values and meanings, can open the door to dialogue and
understanding between peoples, but also to economic growth and development,”
said UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura.

“This new data on film and video production provides yet more proof of the need
to rethink the place of culture on the international political agenda,” he added.

The three cinema heavyweights were followed by eight countries that produced
more than 100 films: Japan (417), China (330), France (203), Germany (174),
Spain (150), Italy (116), South Korea (110) and the United Kingdom (104).

Key to Nollywood’s explosive success is Nigerian filmmakers’ reliance on video
instead of film, reducing production costs, and, as the survey points out, the West
African country has virtually no formal cinemas, with about 99 per cent of
screenings in informal settings, such as home theatres.

The survey also revealed that about 56 per cent of Nollywood films are made in
local languages, while English remains a prominent language, accounting for 44
per cent, which may contribute to Nigeria’s success in exporting its films.

According to the study, US movies continue to dominate cinema admissions
around the world, and all of the top ten films seen in Australia, Bulgaria Canada,
Costa Rica, Namibia, Romania, and Slovenia were US made.