Under the auspices of the Minister of Culture H.E Farouk Hosny ,the 32nd Cairo International Film Festival celebrating "The Black Pearl"
A symposium will be held on Thursday 20-11-08, at 11:30, Sofitel El Gezira Hotel
Opera Ballroom(1)
entitled:
"Cinemas of Africa…..Goodbye Isolation"
The following themes will be discussed during the symposium:
Theme 1:
Obstacles facing the diffusion of African Films in the Black Continent
•Language & dialect obstacles
•Domination of American Film allowing a limited opportunity for other productions
•Insufficient funding & infrastructure at the level of production and distribution.
•Miscommunication or lack of dialogue among different parties concerned with cinema to cooperate & implement an efficient plan for the screening of films on TV here and there.
Theme 2:
The Digital filmmaking revolution, as a "democratic alternative" for a new cinematographic industry.
•Nollywood as the third biggest producer of films after Bollywood and Hollywood.
•South African Cinema
Theme 3:
Cinemas of Africa, becoming international.
•Cinemas which tell afro-African stories, using a modern language.
•Cinemas without the identity crisis on the road to reinventing a new African reality.