Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 43 - D.I.Y, the Critics Company and Nollywood
WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.
Episode 43
D.I.Y, the Critics Company & Nollywood
In this episode Adam and Mark talk about D.I.Y culture and a group of Nigerian teenagers who are making sci-fi movies with their smartphones called the Critics Company. Orson Welles is famous for saying "The absence of limitations is the enemy of art," and nothing brings these words to life more than what these kids are doing. As we loves to say resourcefulness is the best resource and these creatives are the personification of that quote and they’re not letting anything stop them telling their stories.
The Critics Company are made up a group of youngsters aged around 19 years old from northern Nigeria, they’ve been making films, skits and vlogs for seven years with old smart phones and a 3GB Ram Intel Pentium laptop to date they have made over 20 short films and 2 sci-fi shorts CHaSE and Z the beginning, which were posted on their social media platforms. They gained recognition when Nigerian filmmaker, Kemi Adetiba, run a fundraising campaign for them and which resulted in being featured on Reuters, Aljazeera and the BBC. The Blacklist’s Franklin Leonard and JJ Abrams are some of these young filmmakers' biggest fans and they recently picked up a sponsorship deal with RODE
The Critics Company
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