VIDEOS IN MOTION - fasopo

SECTION IIIGLOBAL NOLLYWOODNigerian videos’ openness and videos’ diasporic transformationsIntroductionAs I mentioned in the introduction to this dissertation, during the early days of my PhD researchI met a Nigerian couple based in Turin, Rose Okoh and Vincent Omoigui, who created a videoproduction company in Italy in the mid-2000s. Their friendship guided the early steps of myresearch and the long discussions we had in the courtyard of their home suggested to me many ofthe ideas that I later developed in this dissertation. This section is the one that is most indebted tothis friendship. The two chapters that compose it are in fact tentative answers to some of thequestions provoked by the discussions I had with Rose and Vincent over the past three years.As I will discuss in chapter seven, after a few autonomous production experiences, Vincent andRose started a collaboration with two Italian young people: Simone Sandretti, a film director, and137