For the project coordinator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Christian Boudier, the initiative was based on a simple observation: At Cannes, there is the luxury of selecting movies, but everything happens around: the film market, and the global village, where the most richly endowed nations traditionally hoisted their flag. Amidst all this, the course of a Cannes director or producer of the South, from such films, so-called modestly fragile, all too often resembles that of fighter..

The South Pavilion Cinemas, in this sense, fulfilled its role perfectly. Meeting place and refuge for representatives of the South, it also allowed movies to become known through dozens of screenings on the stand and in the cinema near the Palais des Arcades. The information component was concentrated in this year’s implementation plan Cinemas Africa during a long day of business meetings, which has been referred to the future of film financing in the South, and their dissemination.

This was the particular occasion to present and discuss how the new structure Cinemas Africa who manages the new aid in the dissemination of local films in sub-Saharan Africa. Next year, the meeting point will remain, and no shortage of projects, such as Christian Boudier said: We are working on an idea by Gilles Jacob: Africans show films digitally within the Pavilion, This would enable these films, not yet fully completed, to find funding for a kinescope and a possible theatrical release.

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