Showing posts with label photo book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo book. Show all posts

Sunday, December 14, 2025

NOLLYWOOD Blues: Hatchet Job Against the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series on Amazon



There are intellectually immature and insecure characters in Nollywood who have been doing hatchet job against me online and offline.




They attacked the publication of my photo book on my on going documentary film, 'Lagos in Motion" on Amazon.
The idiot does not even know what is a photo book and what is a photo documentary. So, Amazon ignored him.

Then the next target of the hatchet job is my acclaimed
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series, the first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry.
They sent a false report to Amazon on typos and formatting in the second edition.




The idiot behind this hatchet job attempted to sabotage the publication of the first edition through his semiliterate graphics artist who made the typos and distortions of the fonts to hamper the printing. Because his paymaster, an intellectually challenged immature and insecure opportunist said I refused to include his name in the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series.
Include his name for what?
When he did not contribute anything to the content and publication.

I also chose to print the series in Raleigh, North Carolina in the United States of America to prevent anymore sabotage by him and his evil agents.

The second edition was designed by Juvelin Aripal, an accomplished Art Editor, Art Director and Book Designer in the Philippines and I paid her US$400 (four hundred dollars) for the professional book design. So, the false report of bad formatting was idiotic.

The Nollywood Idiot does not even know how Amazon operates in more than 80 countries in the world.
My books on Amazon, are distributed by more than 50 sellers, including bookstores run by academic institutions. That's why there are more than 15 mentions, references and quotes about my writings in over 15 academic papers by Nigerian and foreign scholars.

The NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series books are the highest priced books by a Nigerian author selling from more than N100, 000 to more than N2 000, 000 a copy by book traders as a collector's item, an art book and photo documentary 

View on
https://www.amazon.com.mx/Nollywood-Mirror-Michael-Chima-Ekenyerengozi/dp/1312199776

My articles on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry have been published widely since 2006 by several publishers, including the Black Film Maker magazine in the UK and Indiewire through the Shadow and ACT that was acquired by Blavity and the acquisition included my most definitive articles on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry. The articles were moved from Indiewire to Blavity.




Morgan DeBaun

The Nollywood Phenomenon: From Analog to Digital - Blavity
https://blavity.com/entertainment/the-nollywood-phenomenon-from-analog-to-digital-2

Blavity is an American digital media company and website based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2014, it aims to serve black millennials.

Morgan DeBaun (born 1990) is an African American serial entrepreneur and corporate advisor. She is the Founder and CEO of Blavity Inc., a digital media company for Black culture and millennials.

2016 – Forbes 30 Under 30 list of "young people transforming the future of media

2016 – The Root 100 list of the 100 most influential African Americans

2016 – MVMT50 Top 10 Innovators of the Year

2018 – Forbes' America's Top 50 Women In Tech

2019 - Culture Creators Innovators & Leaders Technology Award 

2020 - Dot.LA Rising Entrepreneurs

PLEASE, if you are among the bad advisers of this Nollywood idiot, focus on your career in filmmaking.
Learn from the outstanding achievements of Fiery Obasi and others who are trailblazers in Nollywood and beyond.
Stop aiding and abetting evil.
The same Nollywood idiot you are supporting said you most likely misappropriated the over €30, 000 (thirty thousand euros) given to you by the French government to produce your first feature and used most of the money to buy two Toyota Sienna SUVs for yourself and your girlfriend you later married. And I was the only one who contributed N5,000 to support your wedding after the committee of friends meeting in Shomolu, Lagos, Nigeria.
Even when your girlfriend wanted to come over with her laptop to stay overnight with me in his flat, I told her to inform you first and she didn't come again. I refused to be used to cheat on you.

Nollywood idiots should stop their shenanigans against others.
Evil begets evil.

Mortality cannot comprehend immortality.

Fear God.

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Big News from NOLLYWOOD

 Big News from NOLLYWOOD

Franca, Cynthia and Celina from the revised version of the "Lagos in Motion" photo book of the documentary film to be released soon on Amazon for worldwide book and film distribution. The first time for a Nigerian documentary film with the photo book to be released simultaneously.

The documentary film and photo book by Ekenyerengozi Michael.Chima, Publisher/Editor of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series will be available online and offline.

#Lagos #Nollywood #book #travel #photobook #travelphotography #photography #filmmaking #movies #documentary #film #Ekenyerengozi #Michael #Chima


Sunday, February 6, 2022

Video: Somewhere in Lagos



Somewhere.in Lagos

At the Oniru Private Beach on Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria on Saturday, February 5, 2022.
During the concluding part of the principal photography of my "Sand and Sea" short documentary film and photo book. 
- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima

 #Nigeria #film #photography 
#Lagos #Oniru #Onirubeach #beach #documentary #documentaryfilm #shortfilms #sea #photobook #travel #tourism #tourists

Friday, September 24, 2021

Reading in Motion: The Most Popular Screenshot from a Nigerian Motion Picture



#Fridayvibes 💕💋✌🏼️ 💞

Reading in Motion showing beautiful Nollywood starlet, international pageant beauty queen and model Celina Ideh in "Lagos in Motion: Sights and Sounds of Africa's Largest Megacity" documentary film of Ekeyerengozi Michael Chima. The screenshot of this scene has become the most popular screenshot from a Nigerian motion picture.  Screenshots or stills are important in the art of filmmaking and can be published as a photo book which I have done with "Lagos in Motion" and it is the first book of screenshots of a film or TV production in Nigeria, published and distributed by Amazon.


 

I have not completed the principal photography of panoramic views of Lagos City from sunrise to sunset and 🌃 nightfall.


Reading in Motion One of the most circulated film stills from a Nigerian documentary film and movie. I titled it, "Reading in Motion" showing #Nollywood actress,, Celina James reading, "Conspiracy of Lagos" by Bisi Daniels in."Lagos in Motion " I showed three beautiful young Nigerian actresses reading novels about Lagos and Nigeria. Because, any motion picture of Lagos without showing any aspect of the literary culture and literature and haute couture of the people in Africa's largest megacity is incomplete. There is no narrator and no narration in the documentary film. I simply showed Lagos and people in the people in the city in motion. 



Sunday, January 3, 2021

The Hatchet Job on "Lagos in Motion" Photo Book That Failed

The Hatchet Job That Failed

A fellow Nigerian went on Amazon Books to dismiss my photo book, "Lagos in Motion" that was selling for only US$3 and advised that  Amazon should not sell such a complete waste of money. I am sure he must have celebrated his hatchet job and waited for the book to be dropped. But the book is still on Amazon and selling for US$20 and others are selling it for more than US$32 per copy. And guess what! A book trader is selling the same book for US$404.00 (+ $ 111.39 shipping) a copy! 

https://www.amazon.com.mx/Lagos-Motion-Africas-Largest-Megacity/dp/1536934925

The intellectually ignorant Nigerian did not know why I published the photo book of selected photographs from my "Lagos in Motion" documentary film. It is to document the making of the documentary film and not to compete for the World Photography Awards or other competitions. The book is for the foreign tourists and visitors to see my positive images of Africa's largest megacity and not the usual  horrible living conditions of Makoko and other slums in Lagos state.

 

I was born and bred in this dynamic city that is one of the most resilient cities in the world and the dynamic economy has made Lagos the 4th largest economy in Africa.

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima.