Tarifa African Film Festival Offers Movies Online

International Fri 04-02-2011

Tarifa African Film Festival Offers Movies Online
Press Release

The African Film Festival of Tarifa (www.fcat.es), has entered into a partnership with AfricanFilms.tv, a video-on-demand internet platform with headquarters in Dakar, Senegal, aiming to help the platform build up its catalogue of African films.

Ethiopian Filmmaker Zelalem Woldemariam at the Tarifa African film festival 2010 | Image: Newsdire.com

African movies online

Due to cooperation with AfricaFilms.tv, film fans will be able to watch movies from the 500 films rich FCAT library on the video-on-demand platform when it launches commercially in June. A legal, commercial downloading platform, available worldwide, guarantees fair revenue to African filmmakers and producers. “AfricaFilms.tv is very transparent and straight forward.

It is commercial, but the focus is on the African filmmaker. Right holders get 50% of revenue, have online access to the back office and the cession of rights is non-exclusive” says AfricaFilm.tv CEO, Mr. Enrico Chiesa.

“We hope to provide the platform with 20-30 titles from our library per year” says Mrs. Mane Cisneros, director of FCAT and adds “Securing the rights and all the materials related will take time and effort, but we are convinced this is the right platform for us and for the filmmakers”.

Spanish-African co-productions

In January FCAT closed selection process for the 3rd Africa Produce - forum between African filmmakers and Spanish producers, TV commissioning editors and co-production managers, which goal is to introduce African cinema projects to the Spanish co-production market.

For this years forum, FCAT received 18 feature-length projects and 12 documentary projects, coming from 14 African countries. The most entries in fiction category came from Nigeria (4) and Cameroon (4), while the most documentary projects came from Burkina Faso (3). For the first time ever, Equatorial Guinea and Namibia applied in the forum.

Taarifa Award Winners 2010 | Image: Newsdire.com

Tarifa Award Winners 2010 | Image: Newsdire.com

Six projects will be selected by FCAT jury and their directors will be present at the festival to convince Spanish producers. “We aim to continue promoting co-production between Africa and Spain. Two films, from Senegal and Mali, presented in the previous editions are now in development” said Carlos Domínguez, África Produce‘s co-ordinator.

Calls for entries still open

Filmmakers from all over Africa can until February 25th, send their films to FCAT’s committee, which is in charge of selecting movies for the competing and non-competing sections of the festival.

At the same time African photographers can send their entries for the 4th PhotoAfrica until March 1st.

More info regarding application process can be found on www.fcat.es

Posted By: Hirum Ndungu

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