The Nollywood Workshops was founded by a team of filmmakers based in the United States and Nigeria, and will expand to include a community of filmmakers around the world.
Robert Caputo
Robert Caputo is a freelance photographer, writer, and film producer whose introduction to the film world was as a cameraman in Tanzania for the TV series Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior. He lived in Kenya from 1976 to 1979 working as a wildlife photographer and photographic stringer for Time, Life, and other magazines.
Since 1980, Bob has been a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine, crafting text and photos for numerous stories in the US, Africa, Asia, and South America.
Bob appeared in and wrote the narration for the National Geographic Explorer film Zaire River Journey. He has published two children's photographic books about wildlife and two photographic essay books, Journey up the Nile and Kenya Journal.
Bob wrote the story for and was associate producer of the TNT Original film Glory & Honor. Caputo co-produced This Is Nollywood, a feature-length documentary about the Nigerian film industry. He is currently in development of three new scripts.
Bob co-authored The National Geographic Photographers' Field Guide in 1999 and has since authored three other books in the Field Guide series: Landscapes, People and Portraits, and Travel. He has taught at workshops in Europe and America and given talks at many venues including National Geographic's Masters of Photography series. He photographed and wrote several sections of a National Geographic Special Issue on Digital Photography that was published in 2007.
Caputo holds a BFA from New York University Film School. He designed the curriculum for and teaches part time in the photographic department of the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University. He currently lives with his wife and children on a farm in Pennsylvania.
Bond Emeruwa
"We are telling our own stories in our own way, our Nigerian way, African way," Bond says. "I cannot tell the white man's story. I don't know what his story is all about. He tells me his story in his movies. I want him to see my stories too."
Franco Sacchi
Franco Sacchi is an independent Director/Producer. Franco directed, produced, and edited American Eunuchs, a feature length documentary that aired in 2004 on the Sundance Channel and was an official selection at several national and international film festivals, including the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA).
In 2006, he co-produced and directed the award-winning feature length documentary, This is Nollywood, a portrayal of the unknown world of Nigerian film industry. Franco was invited to speak about Nollywood at the prestigious TED Global conference in Tanzania in 2007.
Franco was recently the recipient of a grant from the Sundance Documentary Institute to co-direct Waiting for Armageddon. This film will be a feature length documentary that looks at the growing section of evangelical Christians in the U.S. Currently, Franco has several additional documentary films in development.
Franco is the Filmmaker in Residence at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts (CDIA) at Boston University. Franco graduated in political science at the University of Bologna and obtained a MA in Mass Communications at Emerson College.
Aimee Corrigan
Aimee Corrigan is a photographer, producer and writer. Aimee's work has been published widely including the BBC Online, the Boston Globe, Current TV and Wired Magazine. She is a regular contributor to Life is good Inc. and Project Joy.
Aimee was the Associate Producer and Still Photographer of the award-winning documentary film, "This Is Nollywood". She recently completed a short documentary film, “After The Storm”, about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on young children.
Aimee is the Director of Practicum at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts (CDIA) at Boston University. Driven by the philosophy that media can make a difference, the CDIA Practicum creates partnerships with non-profit organizations around the world to explore the impact and reach of digital media.
Aimee graduated from Colorado College with a BA in Philosophy and African Studies. She completed parts of her degree at the Center for European Studies in The Netherlands and the University of Zimbabwe.