Despite difficulties, Stella Damasus exhorts Nigerians to support Nollywood.

Veteran actress Stella Damasus urged Nigerians to support the film industry despite several underlying problems in a video posted on her Instagram site.

According to the actress, Nigerians need to realise how much work goes into making a movie, thus if they want to analyse a Nigerian film on social media, they should use constructive critique.

Damasus added that no one makes a “poor movie” on purpose, so Nigerians shouldn’t criticise films before paying attention to the messages they convey.

“So I’ve gone online a couple of times and I hear people criticising the Nigerian movie industry, criticising our films and condemning it,” Damasus said in the Instagram post.

“Not even constructive criticisms but really negative things and it hurts me because they think it is easy to get a bunch of people together, get crew, get cast, get them to different locations, shoot morning to morning, suffer.

“I don’t think anyone wants to waste time and money and intentionally make a bad film. We do our best with the little we have. We try, we push and that’s why we still have a thriving industry today, because of the hard work.”