Prepare for the most blasphemous collaboration in Bristol film history as we team up with Bristol Black Horror Club and trash aficionado Andrew Leavold for FLYING BAPTISTS OVER NOLLYWOOD- a deep dive into the nightmarish world of African Godsploitation!

Andrew Leavold, the world’s leading Weng Weng expert, is returning 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 teaming up with Bristol Black Horror Club 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 to Nollywood populated with demons, witch children, midget 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’.

When: 7.00pm (doors open: 6.30pm), Saturday 19th October.

Location: Bristol Improv Theatre, 50 St Paul’s Rd, Bristol BS8 1LP, UK

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All tickets: £6 (all profits to go to Bristol Mind)

Andrew’s latest UK tour is to promote a Kickstarter campaign to help fund his new feature film The Taller They Come – a midget kung fu mockumentary to be shot in Ghana in January, a collaboration with one of Flying Baptists‘ featured directors “Ninja”.

Andrew Leavold is also a Ghanaian action film star, playing the title role in Ninja’s White Devil (shot in April 2024, and already on YouTube in its entirety!)