Nollywood filmmaker Daniel Ehimen initially worked in sound production for live events, but realised there was a "disconnect between lugging around the amount of speakers it took to set up a stadium and the pay that comes from it". He honed his eye for composition with fashion photography, before learning the language of cinema on a mentorship programme. © Daniel Ehimen
But what's behind this success? How have filmmakers in Nigeria been able to maintain such a fast pace of production? And what does the Nollywood moniker actually mean to the people who work in the industry?
"An independent collective consciousness is how I would describe it," says Daniel Ehimen, a director and cinematographer who's worked across features, commercials and documentaries. "In Hollywood or Bollywood, there is a structure with a lot of specialisation, various guilds, unions and codes of practice. We don't have that. When it comes to Nollywood, you have to put on many hats."