# How do Nigerian directors and producers say, in their own words, that 2024 inflation changed budgets, locations, catering and shoot cadence?

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Corrected 2026-10-23 - see C3-B688-01; the original statements below are kept for history and are superseded where the correction says so. Nollywood filmmakers quoted in a 2024 feature describe inflation-driven overruns (one budget rising to 19 million naira), negotiating daily location fees down for longer stays, cutting crew feeding, and a fast cadence of about two films a month at low budgets; these are reported quotes, not cost surveys.

Nollywood filmmakers quoted in a 2024 feature describe inflation-driven overruns (one budget rising to 19 million naira), negotiating daily location fees down for longer stays, cutting crew feeding, and a fast cadence of about two films a month at low budgets; these are reported quotes, not cost surveys.

Curator correction 2026-10-23 (discovery audit record C3-B688-01; sources re-fetched 2026-10-23, excerpts re-located by curator GET): Problem. C2-B122-X13-01 says three practitioners describe how 2024 inflation changed budgets, catering and cadence, and that the quotes are the interviewees' words. Conditions. Reading the Afrocritik feature of 2024-03-28. Correction. (1) Meal-cutting is quoted from Wingonia Ikpi about 'producers' in general; the in-house cooks and bulk buying passage is the journalist's narration about 'others', not a quote from any of the three named people. (2) The two-films-a-month, two-million-naira cadence is Belinda Yanga-Agedah arguing that production carries on regardless; the article says she does not think much is different. The source therefore shows a practitioner denying an inflation-driven cadence change, and gives no shoot-day counts or crew sizes. Limitations. Single journalist-mediated article; figures are in naira, undated per item. Version/date. Article dated March 28, 2024; fetched 2026-10-23.

Curator qualifications: Articles read 2026-10-22; testimony. Feeding cuts, VFX cost and cadence quotes located in producer copies only; interviewee names not needed for the claim. Curator amendment CA-AM-0041 (2026-10-22): Correction (curator, source_statement): the curator readback 8e6ff0f9 itself contains the feeding, cadence and VFX quotes: 'producers started cutting down feeding. So instead of spending three thousand naira for three square meals, they started cutting it down to two'; 'you're shooting two films per month'; 'people are still shooting with two million naira'; and 'The VFX alone for that film, in today's budget, is going to cost close to 30M' (a planned horror film; an earlier film 'close to a total of 25M'). The accepted finding is therefore curator-verified in full; still testimony, not a cost survey.

Limitations: Articles read 2026-10-22; testimony.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "url": "https://afrocritik.com/nigeria-economic-nollywood-filmmakers/",
      "note": "Afrocritik, Nigeria economic crisis and Nollywood filmmakers (March 2024)"
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- [sourced_fact] Nollywood filmmakers quoted in a 2024 feature describe inflation-driven overruns (one budget rising to 19 million naira), negotiating daily location fees down for longer stays, cutting crew feeding, and a fast cadence of about two films a month at low budgets; these are reported quotes, not cost surveys. · locator: Afrocritik, Nigeria economic crisis and Nollywood filmmakers (March 2024) · source: https://afrocritik.com/nigeria-economic-nollywood-filmmakers/

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