I Appreciate Every Cast And Crew Behind Lisabi’s Success – Lateef Adedimeji

Nollywood actor, Lateef Adedimeji has come out to congratulate his fellow 2025 AMVCA nominees. He recently had his say via his social media page, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the joy of every producer is to see his or work earning recognition from relevant quarters, and that is why he is super honored to receive 10 different nominations for his latest Nollywood project, “Lisabi.”

Lateef then appreciated the entire cast of the movie, while also hailing those who did an amazing job behind the cameras to ensure the movie is an absolute success.

His words, “The joy of every filmmaker is in seeing your work earning recognition from relevant quarters, and in the spirit of the AMVCA season, I am excited for the honour of being nominated, not once, not twice, but a whopping ten times!

I have said so much about my Lisabi experience, and it is a joy to me that all of us, from those who acted alongside me and my wife on the project to those who worked in the background, got recognition through the AMVCA nominations. What more can I say?

Here’s me also congratulating everyone who got nominated in the categories in which my project is featured. We are all winners. Let’s keep the good work up. We owe it to the emerging generations to leave them with works that will last a long time and challenge them to a high standard.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.