How NollywoodCV Is Transforming Talent Discovery and Casting in Nigeria's Film Industry
For most of Nollywood's history, casting has been less of a process and more of a phone call. A producer needs an actress for a lead role, so he calls a director he knows, who recommends someone he has worked with before, who may or may not be right for the character but is available and trusted enough to be considered. The cycle repeats itself across production after production, season after season. The same faces appear. The same names circulate. And somewhere outside that circle in Enugu, in Benin City, in Kaduna, in Port Harcourt a trained, experienced, genuinely talented professional sits without a single call coming in, not because they lack ability but because they lack access to the right network. NollywoodCV, the professional talent discovery and CV platform now live at nollywoodcv.com, is building the infrastructure that challenges that system directly. And for producers who have long depended on personal contacts to fill roles, what NollywoodCV offers is not a convenie...
