The Motion Picture Association of America

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         One of the most powerful organizations in the film industry is the Motion Picture Association of America. Formed in 1922, the MPAA was originally named The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America and was created to resist government interference with films and create an organized system of industry-led censorship called the Hays Code or The Production Code.

TED Speaker Franco Sacchi

     

     When you think about Africa, you think of it as a place of wide-open landscape with exotic animals and deserts, but did you know that Africa has one of the largest film industries in the world. With 872 feature length films released in 2006, Nigeria became the second largest film producer in the world. Italian film director, Franco Sacchi, saw this booming industry and decided to make a documentary giving insight to all that happens in Nollywood.