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WAR BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICAN AND SIERRA LEONEAN MOVIE INDUSTRY: WHO IS THE RIGHTFUL OWNER OF SOLLYWOOD?

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Jimmy Bangura, Sierra Leonean Producer

In 2010, Sierra Leone producer and director Jimmy Bangura
had this to say about the Sierra Leonean movie industry: “In few years, people
won’t be talking about Hollywood, Bollywood or Nollywood. People will be
talking about Sollywood in Sierra Leone”.

Tiro Venter, South African Producer

The experienced film maker has successfully produced and
directed a few movies that have been screened on Africa’s popular television
stations like DSTV and MNET. His films have also been screened on Sky
Television.  He was also at one time
reported to have lured A-List Nollywood actor Ramsey Nouah to partake in a
Sollywood movie. He has also reached out to other African countries’ film stars
to help grow Sollywood, casting them in roles in his films.

Also for a long while now, there have been questions raised
about why the South African film industry has not join the big movie-making
business with their own South African stories and movie industry.

But finally in the same year 2010, Actor and Director Tiro
Venter and producer) Inda Khumalo, decided to take on the challenge.  They succeeded in making a huge budget movie.
To avoid piracy, the movie was available exclusively at www.sollywood.co.za,
Hence the creation and registration of South Africa’s Sollywood.

Since then not much has been heard of both film industries,
and non has been able to meet or measure up to the standards of Nigeria’s
Nollywood nor Ghana’s Ghollywood. But the question remains which of these is
recognized as the legitimate Sollywood internationally?

 

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