The African Film Festival of Tarifa (www.fcat.es),which takes place in Spain from 11 – 19 June, has entered into a partnership with AfricanFilms.tv, a video-on-demand internet platform with headquarter in Dakar, Senegal, to help the platform build up its catalogue of African films.
Due to cooperation with AfricaFilms.tv film fans will be able to watch movies from the FCAT library of 500 films 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 year 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.
Six projects will be selected by FCAT jury and their directors will be present at the festival to meet Spanish producers.
The calls for entries for films from Africa for FCAT is open till 25 February.
African photographers aree also invited to send their entries for the 4th PhotoAfrica by 1 March.
More info regarding application process can be found on www.fcat.es
