Saturday 19th October | 19:00 (doors open 18:30)
Andrew Leavold, the world’s leading Weng Weng expert, returns to Bristol to take lovers of the weird and wonderful on a voyage in to the dark heart of African Z-grade cinema!
After spending 20 years finding out what happened to Weng Weng, the diminutive Filipino superstar, in his documentary ‘The Search For Weng Weng’, Australian film-maker Andrew Leavold is now diving into the world of African exploitation cinema!
As such, Bristol Bad Film Club is returning for a one-night only special event with Andrew to explore one of the world’s most prolific, yet criminally underseen, film industries which combines the sensational with the supernatural!
Get ready for… FLYING BAPTISTS OVER NOLLYWOOD!
Compiled and introduced by filmmaker and B film historian Andrew Leavold (The Search For Weng Weng) ‘Flying Baptists Over Nollywood’ offers a literally eye-popping selection of film clips, trailers and documentaries from filmdom’s final frontier.
Audiences are invited on a 90-minute journey upriver into the dark heart of African Z-grade cinema: from Nigeria or Nollywood populated with demons, witch children, gangsters and Antichrists; Uganda, the film factory of Wakaliwood’s RAMON Productions run by Isaac Nabwana, creator of the demented action sensation Who Killed Captain Alex; Ghana’s Predators, Terminators and Spidermen from Ninja Productions and Rockson Emmanuel.
PLUS foaming-at-the-mouth Godsploitation horrors, all delivered with such terrifying conviction to scare the Bejeesus INTO its African audience!
“Flying Baptists Over Nollywood” is both a detailed history and garish moving postcard of a startlingly original and sometimes genuinely dangerous film culture.
This film and event is certified ’18’.
All tickets: £6 (all profits to go to Bristol Mind)
