For African cinema, financing remains the crux of the matter, significantly impacting the film industry as a whole and conditioning artistic creation. The welfare state in the film industry in French-speaking Africa has been largely ineffective for years. Added to this is the decline in public funding from the French government and the disappearance of movie theaters in the 1990s. Financing a film project is therefore still complicated at present.
This delicate situation is forcing those involved in the industry to adapt, reinvent themselves, and redouble their inventiveness in order to find sources of funding. Although resources are lacking and national and international subsidies are declining, numerous public initiatives continue to support film production. This is the case with the Film and Audiovisual Industry Promotion Fund (FOPICA) in Senegal.
Funded by the Senegalese government, FOPICA's objectives are to provide financial assistance to film and audiovisual works in order to support local production. But that's not all. FOPICA is also committed to creativity by launching, once again, its call for applications for film (fiction, documentary, animation) and series production and co-production projects.
The deadline for submitting applications is June 2, 2023.