For audiovisual production on the African continent, financing remains the crux of the matter. This delicate situation is pushing industry players to adapt, reinvent themselves, and redouble their inventiveness in order to find sources of funding.
Beyond "traditional" financing (television channels, subsidies, sponsorship, VOD), filmmakers are turning to the web to find new ways to finance their projects, particularly through crowdfunding, which is becoming increasingly popular.
Director Thibaut Monnier and a team of young professionals based in Haiti, Ivory Coast, and Belgium have launched a crowdfunding campaign to make their film "Wozo." It is a fiction film produced in collaboration with TV5Monde, with the leading roles played by Haitian, Belgian, and Ivorian actors and actresses.
Thibaut Monnier, who has been involved in a United Nations Volunteers program in Haiti for several years, has embarked on a three-year collective project in Ivory Coast, Belgium, and Haiti to stimulate critical debate on the international aid sector. To document this work and his experience, Thibaut Monnier has decided to make the film "Wozo."
After the writing and filming phases, he launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance post-production, with an initial target of €10,000. The film's post-production will be handled by Nameita Toure, production manager at TSK Studios, who enjoyed initial success with the production of Alex Gohou's series "Invisibles," the first Ivorian series to receive international recognition at the 2018 La Rochelle Festival.
Read also: Interview with Nameïta Lica Toure, Production Manager at TSK Studios
For more information and to support the project: https://fr.ulule.com/wozomovie/?flavour=full