Nollywood

===Ghanaian English-language cinema===
{{Main|Cinema of Ghana#Ghanaian actors abroad}}
Over the years the term Nollywood has also been used to refer to other affiliate film industries, such as the [[Cinema of Ghana|Ghanaian English-language cinema]]. Around the year 2006 through 2007, Nigerian filmmaker [[Frank Rajah Arase]] signed a contract with a Ghanaian production company, Venus Films, which involved helping to introduce Ghanaian actors into mainstream Nollywood. This collaboration eventually led to extreme popularity of certain Ghanaian actors, such as [[Van Vicker]], [[Jackie Appiah]], [[Majid Michel]], [[Yvonne Nelson]], [[John Dumelo]], [[Nadia Buari]] and [[Yvonne Okoro]], arguably as much as their Nigerian counterparts. Furthermore, over the years, due to the high cost of film production in Nigeria, Nigerian filmmakers have been forced to make films outside Lagos in order to cut costs, mirroring the exodus of filmmaking in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] from [[Los Angeles]] to cities like [[Toronto]] and [[Albuquerque]], a phenomenon known as [[runaway production]]. Several other producers, as a result, started shooting in cities like [[Accra]], [[Ghana]], channeling the savings into investing in better equipment, many of them trying to get their films onto the big screen.<ref name="Nollywood: Lights, camera, Africa">{{cite news | url=http://www.economist.com/node/17723124 | title=Nollywood: Lights, camera, Africa | work=The Economist | date=16 December 2010 | access-date=20 February 2015}}</ref>