On the sidelines of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, the Pavillon Afriques is launching its call for projects. The Pavillon Afriques will once again be located at the heart of the Cannes Film Festival's international village, which will take place from May 14 to 25, 2024. It is an essential...
BEST CAN EVER: more than just a slogan, it's a quantified reality
The Confederation of African Football has published a series of statistics on the latest Africa Cup of Nations, which took place in Ivory Coast, showing that all previous records have been broken by a wide margin: The number of videos viewed rose from 350 million in 2021 to 2.2 billion...
Creation of a new fund to support women in the audiovisual and film industry
In 2021, UNESCO, in its report "African film industry: trends, challenges, and opportunities for growth," estimated that African cinema could create 20 million jobs and generate $20 billion per year... A recent study by the CNC found that "the global film, audiovisual, and video game markets are experiencing unprecedented vitality...
Dakar Series: second edition postponed
Due to the electoral context, the second edition of the Dakar Series festival has been postponed. Originally scheduled for May 6-11, 2024, the festival will now take place from October 8-12, 2024. Launched in 2023 by Séraphine Angoula, Dakar Series brings together professionals and enthusiasts of television series and offers...
SLTV: Nigeria's third satellite operator—a counterproductive decision?
Metro Digital Limited, which has been offering pay TV services in NIGERIA for several years, is now launching satellite pay TV. The satellite television company SLTV, operated by Metro Digital TV, was launched on March 8, 2024. Nigerian authorities were present at the launch of the company, whose project they...
The 2024 Olympic Games on RTI
In light of the extraordinary enthusiasm generated by recent sporting events successfully broadcast on Ivorian channels in recent years (the 2022 World Cup on NCI and the 2023 African Cup of Nations on NCI, CANAL+, and RTI), RTI has just announced that it has acquired the exclusive broadcasting rights (television,...
Benin: Analog television to be phased out by August 2024
After officially launching Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) on February 17, 2023, Benin announced that it would permanently switch off its analog terrestrial television signal by August 15, 2024. As a reminder, DTT was launched nationwide, with 16 channels including five public channels, eight private channels, and three foreign channels. One...
Orange Côte d'Ivoire unveils "Les perles de Babi" (Babi's Pearls)
In recent years, Ivorian cinema has experienced a real rise in the audiovisual landscape, boosted in particular by historical and major players. Attentive to its market as a committed multi-service operator, Orange Côte d'Ivoire has been supporting the development of the Ivorian film industry for several years. After co-producing original...
2nd edition of the AFRO VFX training program
With around 3,500 films produced each year, West Africa is the most prolific region on the continent. However, professional training remains a strategic issue for the development and structuring of the audiovisual industry. To address this challenge, Éric M’Boua and Dedy Bilamba, co-founders of EM&MB, launched a comprehensive special effects...
The new series “EWUSU” on CANAL+ Première
CANAL+ Première will broadcast the new series "EWUSU" starting March 11, created and directed by Françoise Ellong-Gomez, known for her feature film W.A.K.A shot in Cameroon and for all the initiatives she leads to contribute to the development and structuring of the local film ecosystem. This new series, "EWUSU," is...