The Grand Jury of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival awarded Mati Diop this year for her film "Atlantique." This is a wonderful recognition for African cinema. But the Franco-Senegalese director's first feature film, which received the Grand Prix du Jury, also caught the attention of streaming giant Netflix. Netflix has...
Startimes launches a pan-African online film festival
Satellite television operator Startimes has launched the first edition of the Pan-African Online Film Festival. Driven by its ambition to support and promote audiovisual creation in Africa, Startimes has chosen to launch this festival on its OTT platform, Startimes ON. Based on a quarterly competition, StarTimes will award prizes for...
What does the future hold for African broadcasting?
Every year, funding for audiovisual and film productions is the central theme of these professional meetings, which bring together buyers, sellers, and producers. These debates often fall short, as most participants can only note the chronic underfunding of audiovisual productions in Africa. Once again this year, this topic was at...
CAN 2019: Shared or exclusive sports rights?
The conference on public television organized during the last DISCOP Abidjan, during which the sensitive subject of sports rights was discussed, provided an opportunity to reignite a controversy that is still far from over. Two years ago, Lagardère Sports was challenged by numerous channels that considered the prices offered to...
CAN 2019: UAR organizes marketing seminar with television channels
With just a few weeks to go before the kickoff of the Africa Cup of Nations, the African Broadcasting Union brought together African television channels for a marketing seminar on the exploitation and commercialization of TV rights for the competition. The participants gathered in Dakar from May 21 to 23...
"Afrofuturisms," the new podcast from RFI
What is Afrofuturism? Born in the 1960s and conceptualized in the 1990s in the United States, Afrofuturism is a cultural movement that has spread across the Atlantic to Europe and Africa. In this new podcast entitled "Afrofuturisms," RFI highlights this cultural movement with its shifting contours throughout history and current...
Mati Diop, revelation of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival
At the end of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, the first Franco-Senegalese female director in competition, Mati Diop, was awarded the Grand Prix for her film Atlantique. This is the Senegalese director's first feature film. The niece of one of the great names in Senegalese cinema, Djibril Diop Mambéty, the...
Africa24: Cameroon government acquires Afrimedia SAS
End of turmoil for Africa 24. Since January 2019, Afrimédia SA, the French subsidiary of the pan-African audiovisual group Africa 24, headed by Constant Nemalé, has been undergoing judicial liquidation proceedings. At the end of this turbulent period of restructuring, the group announced that it had sold its French subsidiary,...
Conscious Generation: the new TV5Monde web series
TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, will exclusively broadcast a new web series entitled "Génération consciente" (Conscious Generation), produced by Claudy Siar, starting on Thursday, May 23. The series "Génération Consciente" showcases African talent. It introduces viewers to young people who, far from the turmoil of legitimate demands for emancipation, work daily...
Press release: RFI and France 24 confirm their success in Côte d'Ivoire in four provincial cities
As in Abidjan, RFI and France 24 confirmed their success in the Ivorian provinces in 2018 and their positions at the top of the rankings in terms of brand awareness and audience share, according to the results of the Kantar-TNS Africascope* study conducted in Bouaké, Korhogo, Mankono, and Tengrela. RFI...