"It sat here for five years, unused," says set designer Andrew McAlpine. He's taking us on a tour of Tinapa Film Studio, where the film adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun, the novel that earned Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie an Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007, is being filmed. The studio was opened in April 2007 as part of the Tinapa Free Zone & Resort, located just outside Calabar.
One story has it that Donald Duke, then Governor of Cross River State was inspired to build the studio when he found out how much Nigerians were spending to shoot in South Africa. Upon completion the studio promptly went into hibernation, as Tinapa struggled to attract the crowds of merchants, tourists, shoppers and filmmakers it was built for.
Until Half of a Yellow Sun came along.
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