>. Then in the sixties, the Japanese, Satyajit Ray.....and then, I don't know.
There was a lot of great stuff from Hong Kong. And here's another country heard from:
http://festival.sundance.org/2009/film_events/films/nollywood_babylon
"Peppered with outrageously juicy movie clips and buoyed by a rousing score that fuses Afropop and traditional sounds, Nollywood Babylon celebrates the distinctive power of Nigerian cinema as it marvels in the magic of movies." -- Sundance 2009
In the bustling, chaotic stalls of the Idumota Market of Lagos Island, Nigeria, amongst the farmers' produce and the reams of fabrics, lies the second-largest film industry in the world. Outrageous, but true! The "Nollywood" film business churns out hundreds of no-budget films every month, tossing infidelity, comedy, prostitution, romance, corruption, voodoo, Islam and Christianity into an overflowing cauldron of nonstop gritty video that's captivated the imaginations of tens of millions of Nigerians. Not only does Nollywood Babylon serve up a slew of killer clips from of the nation's finest films, but it also follows the charismatic and adventurous Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen (a Nollywood cross between Fassbinder and Sam Fuller), as he fights his way through the production of his 157th(!) flick. His own journey is the Nollywood experience itself: scrappy, irreverent and altogether joyous. Dirs. Ben Addelman & Samir Mallal, 2008, digital presentation, 74 min.