The director of RRR in pre-pro for a movie Telugu platform Gulte says is 'billed to be an African adventure film.'

Statement from members of the 2024 Hot Docs Jury

At a time of great global and local concern, we members of the jury—ourselves artists and cultural workers—have chosen to observe the indispensable work of documentary filmmakers who, often at great personal risk,

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It hasn't even premiered yet!

LinkedIn has been very beneficial since I started actively publishing Akoroko business stories there last fall. But occasionally one comes across something like this... 😏

This fits here: twitter.com/TambayObenson/…

This is important work that addresses a critical gap in the documentation, the archiving and accessibility problem that currently hinders the full appreciation of African cinemas at home and worldwide. More later...

One thing I should've added is that if you contributed to the crowdfunding campaign in 2022, and you want a subscription, email: [email protected]

Nigeria may be the only Sub-Saharan African country where locally-produced films consistently compete with foreign (Hollywood) fare. Still, Hollywood movies tend to be bigger draws. Akoroko Premium subscribers received a detailed analysis of this today: akoroko.com/subscribe/

The 55th Visions du Réel (April 12-21, 2024), which dedicated its Atelier to Alice Diop, has wrapped. The festival has made a selection of Diop's films available to stream on the DAFilms platform through May 15. This is geolocked to Europe only: dafilms.com/?utm_source=Vi…

Kinda wild that AWS started as a relatively small-scale internal cloud project within Amazon, and that was in this century.

South Korea being proactive here... sending delegates to Angola, Cameroon, and Senegal, to start... Reminded me that the South Korean African Film Festival, which I mentioned here in March, is scheduled for May 9 to June 6, in Seoul. Will keep an eye on that one...

I don't know of anyone who believes that 'follow your dreams' means 'success at work' or success at all.

Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim star. No plot details but this trio makes it something for me to highly anticipate. Farahani continues making waves 👌🏾

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#Algeria [Subscribers received this yesterday]: The Algerian government is actively supporting the film industry with aspirations of reigniting [Gulf News] the significant role it once played in the national economy.

In Dec. 2023, the Council of Ministers, led by President…

One subscriber response: 'Are we to quietly watch a media giant (from a former colonialist country) take control of large swathes of media across the continent, then being able to decide how much and when or if they might invest locally and in the end control what we see?'

A supernational historical drama grappling with colonialism and the spiritual defense of land. One of those scenarios where everything will depend on how it's executed...

And so it begins... I have no idea what to expect, but even one subscriber would be a win. I can build on that over time. That said, I'll be publishing a lot less often here. Much of the work (and more to be unveiled), will go to subscribers only. Join me in starting something...

Responding to a question about concerns he may have about international audiences not understanding his work: 'I felt really bad about thinking too much about people I don't know.' That got a chuckle out of me. I like this too: 'Make movies from a place, not for an audience.'