Nigeria: What Genevieve Nnaji's Netflix Deal Means for Nollywood

30 September 2018

On September 7, a few days before its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival(TIFF) , it was announced that Netflix had acquired Genevieve Nnaji's directorial debut, Lion Heart, making it the first Nigerian Netflix Original movie.

Now, while there are Nollywood films available on Netflix, none of them is a Netflix film and were acquired after their cinema run.

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