Training the younger generation in various professions is a real challenge for African countries. In some sectors, there is a considerable gap between expectations and the skills available locally. Many private actors are choosing to invest in training to help professionalize their sector.
To support training in audiovisual professions, FOTTI, in partnership with FOPICA, is organizing a workshop lasting several weeks to train professionals in the sector in production, screenwriting, and fiction directing.
From November 3 to November 15, candidates selected following a call for applications are taking part in training led by Judith Langerôme (director, producer, and professor), Pierre-Michel Chevigné (fiction series screenwriter), and Adbou Aziz Cissé (director).
"We are here to enable people working in the cultural sector to perform and complete their know-how by bringing something of quality and very pragmatic,
because theoretical training is not enough,
" said FOTTI President Yves Preira.
FOTTI is a traveling arts training school created in Senegal in 2008 by Younouss Diallo, a Senegalese actor and director.
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