Sade Dada

Film l Tech l TV l Digital.

[Sade Dada @iamSadeDada]

@DrJoeAbah @asemota Blessed art thou amongst fintechs,oh Opay

[Sade Dada @iamSadeDada]

@Catchoris @CombRazor To be fair, I would say execution is more of the issue. I have seen beautiful scripts turned into beautiful nonsense. We have some good scriptwriters - a lot of bad producers

[Sola Akindolu @akindolu]

The meme-ification of our problems.

[Tito Idakula @titoidakula]

I have thought about this often. How traumatic experiences keep us bound. We don't become all that we have been created to be because the fear of failure or pain is overwhelming. We hide our potential and pretend we don't know it exists because it is safer that way.

[America’s Got Talent @AGT]

Josh Alfred is not giving up! #AGT https://t.co/8lmtidrmxu

[Barry Jenkins @BarryJenkins]

THEY CLONED TYRONE is… SOOOOOOO damn good! 🤯

Like a modern day SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR with shades of EDGE OF TOMORROW and PLAYERS CLUB in the visual style of PEAK John McTiernan.

And it’s just sitting there… on Netflix… getting a fraction of the flowers it deserves 🫠

[Sade Dada @iamSadeDada]

@NaijaFlyingDr 😂🤣😂

[Joey Akan @JoeyAkan]

I don't think the demise of Alte music's impact is viewed from the appropriate lens.

The community which gained credibility and early attention for its experimentation, incubated a lot of Afrobeats' current expression and aesthetic elements, before they were widely adopted in the mainstream.

During the glory days of 2016-2019 when Alte artists were held up and celebrated as the future of Nigerian music, we all expected the community to move to the centre in its original form and presentation.

But they didn’t. Many were narrow-minded purists who not only believed that there was only one way to innovation (theirs), but also believed that industry underground hype = real success.

Their music (experimental to a fault) was not connecting, and possessed liitle utility beyond their community and fringe spaces. When a small number of Nigerians wanted to be mysterious, they sampled Alte. When they wanted to have real fun and celebrate life, they called Tekno and Davido.

What the Alte community didn't envisage was emerging mainstream artists studying them, drawing from their expression — combining Alte's quirkiness with conventional sounds and style — and finding deep success in local and international spaces.

Artists like Fireboy, Rema, Omah Lay, Victony, Ruger, and more are all Alte artists in spirit and presentation, who served quirkiness with a commercial focus.

As with everything, when these new artists provided us Alte's steeze, mixed in with our traditional sounds and the familiarity of dance, the world embraced them. And as we all know, the leaders of culture aren't the pioneers. It's the ones who found success on a commercial level.

Why should we only come to your for weirdness, where we can get weirdness and pop music in another place?

And so the world moved on from the real Alte from the centre. The ones who could jump ship, did. The ones who couldn't, are still stuck in their head and communities, releasing timeless music and trying and failing to recapture that old flame.

Sadly, time goes forward. It forever marches on.

Alte isn't dead. Alte didn't fail. Alte gave us a new branding, new aesthetics and new ways to manipulate sound. Their community leaders just didn't translate that influence to commercial success.

Thanks to them. We are all Alte, right now.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

A few people die while exploring a frontier, and all the commentary becomes about how they shouldn’t have even tried, even though they themselves faced the entire burden of risk. Humanity would’ve never done most great things with the attitude of people today.

[Kenneth Gyang @kennethgyang]

As a filmmaker have it at the back of your mind that just because someone has ran to announce making a film/series based on a historical figure/event doesn't mean you shouldn't develop a similar idea you've had based on the same event. It's always about POV and theme.

[Noam Kroll @noamkroll]

Christopher Nolan uses a detailed shot list, but Steven Spielberg prefers to improvise.

Aaron Sorkin plots out his films meticulously, but Quentin Tarantino writes without an outline.

David Fincher shoots dozens of takes, but the Coen Brothers shoot very few.

There are as many ways to make a film as there are filmmakers.

Try everything and keep what works for you.

[Noam Kroll @noamkroll]

Filmmakers: Don’t feel bad if you have a day job or side business in a separate field.

So does almost every writer or director you admire.

Most of them own restaurants, invest in real estate, consult, and do a million other things to keep the lights on between films.

[Sade Dada @iamSadeDada]

@theaadedewe Interested

[Sade Dada @iamSadeDada]

@tuneh It’s called PreProduction selective amnesia . 😂🤣 Once your are not on set or in post . Pooooof

[C.J. “Fiery” Obasi @FieryCJ]

Greetings! @mikegouken and I are programming a section of Nigerian shorts for an international film festival and would like to receive submissions of works made between last year and this year. Send us your cool short films (including work-in progress) to [email protected]

[Tambay Obenson @TambayObenson]

#Netflix has dropped a 45-page report on its "Africa adventures" from 2016-2022. I just received it. I'll go through it and share highlights in this thread, so this may take all day... 🤪

[Sade Dada @iamSadeDada]

Unpopular opinion. #JohnWick is the Villain

[Babátundé Apálowó @tundeapalowo]

It’s really difficult to be a writer in Nollywood. Just saw a film that I wrote and well, I didn’t write that.

[Sade Dada @iamSadeDada]

@Harri_obi @asemota @Ik3chukwu_M 😂😂🤣🤣