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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE<\/p>\n

Alors que le Covid-19 ferme les entreprises du monde et force des milliards de personnes \u00e0 rester chez eux, le cin\u00e9aste nig\u00e9rian Obi Emelonye a d\u00e9couvert une fa\u00e7on innovante de continuer \u00e0 filmer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Inspir\u00e9 par les t\u00e9l\u00e9conf\u00e9rences de sa femme lors de leur isolement en Grande-Bretagne, il a \u00e9crit et r\u00e9alis\u00e9 un court-m\u00e9trage au sujet d\u2019un couple s\u00e9par\u00e9 entre Londres et Lagos.<\/p>\n

Il suffit d\u2019un jour seulement pour les r\u00e9p\u00e9titions et de deux jours pour le tournage. Les acteurs ont enregistr\u00e9 leurs sc\u00e8nes sur des t\u00e9l\u00e9phones mobiles chez eux, sur deux continents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab Je voulais montrer aux jeunes que, malgr\u00e9 les difficult\u00e9s innombrables de notre profession, malgr\u00e9 le coronavirus, vous pouvez produire un film sans financement, sans m\u00eame de vraie cam\u00e9ra \u00bb, d\u00e9clare le cin\u00e9aste.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Face \u00e0 la pand\u00e9mie, la deuxi\u00e8me industrie cin\u00e9ma-tographique de la plan\u00e8te en termes de volume a besoin plus que jamais de son esprit d\u2019invention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moses Babatope a constat\u00e9 qu\u2019un d\u00e9cret gouvernemental de fermeture avait fait \u00e9vaporer les revenus au printemps 2020 \u00e0 la Filmhouse, cha\u00eene de cin\u00e9mas qu\u2019il avait cofond\u00e9e en 2012. Il estimait \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque que les pertes du secteur atteignaient plus de 9 millions de dollars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Des douzaines de projets de film ont \u00e9t\u00e9 suspendus ou \u00e9limin\u00e9s et les employ\u00e9s continuent \u00e0 ne pas \u00eatre pay\u00e9s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Netflix a suspendu le tournage de sa premi\u00e8re s\u00e9rie originale au Nigeria et le g\u00e9ant m\u00e9diatique fran\u00e7ais Vivendi a suspendu l\u2019ouverture de son premier cin\u00e9ma dans la capitale d\u2019Abuja.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Les distributeurs estiment que 50.000 emplois sont menac\u00e9s. \u00ab Cela va prendre du temps avant de vraiment red\u00e9marrer \u00bb, d\u00e9clare M. Babatope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pour naviguer au sein de ces probl\u00e8mes, l\u2019industrie a commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 repousser les limites. Le producteur Charles Okpaleke a fait \u00e9quipe avec les cha\u00eenes de cin\u00e9ma locales Genesis et Silverbird pour ouvrir des \u00ab drive-in \u00bb de plein air.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lors d\u2019une premi\u00e8re \u00e0 Abuja \u00e0 la fin mai 2020, tous les tickets ont \u00e9t\u00e9 vendus en quelques heures lorsque les spectateurs se sont pr\u00e9cipit\u00e9s pour voir son film Living in Bondage<\/i>, confortablement dans leur voiture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Les producteurs et les metteurs en sc\u00e8ne cherchent aussi \u00e0 distribuer leurs films sur des services de streaming tels que Netflix et son concurrent local, Iroko TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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