Apart from the usual Nigerian video-films done in English language, Nollywood films are often addressed within animated spectra of Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo language film studies, but new frontiers of the glocalised order such as Benin, Nupe, Afemai, Ibibio language films have yet to receive critical attention in popular culture discourse in Nigeria and elsewhere. Employing historical analysis, interviews and document observation techniques, this study reviews existing literature on indigenous language movies in Nigeria and signposts the Benin video-film as one of the vibrant new frontiers. The paper further examines the Benin video-film against the backdrop of the Benin worldview that sets the subsection apart from other Nigerian film cultures. It concludes by asserting that the film culture in terms of output is representationally consequential considering that close to 400 movies have been made in its visual existence and canvasses for support for the culture both from the academic and professional circles so that it may realise its fullest potentialities in a glocalising Nollywood.
