All Africa articles – Page 3
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NewsTribeca award-winning documentary ‘Q’ lands MENA distribution (exclusive)
Jude Chehab’s feature directorial debut explores a secretive religious sect in Syria.
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NewsCannes drama ‘Goodbye Julia’ records box office success in Gulf
Mohamed Kordofani’s Sudanese title previously opened strongly in Egypt.
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NewsRed Sea Competition title ‘Six Feet Over’ secures sales representation (exclusive)
The Algerian-French drama had its world premiere in Montpellier in October.
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News‘Goodbye Julia’ producers ready Sudanese drama ‘Specters Of AlHoot’
The film will be based on the true story of a massacre at a military camp in 1998.
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NewsMorocco’s ‘The Mother of All Lies’ wins historic top prize at Marrakech
Further winners included Kamal Lazraq’s ‘Hounds’ and Lina Soualem’s ‘Bye Bye Tiberius’.
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NewsMartin Scorsese forced to pull out of Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops for “personal reasons”
The ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ director has to stay in New York.
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NewsRed Sea’s Souk Project Market selects 26 projects competing for $360,000 prizes
Industry speakers at festival include ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ director Jasmila Zbanic, former Marvel exec Karim Zreik.
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NewsZambia, Zimbabwe producers among 15 selected for Creative Producer Indaba scheme (exclusive)
Realness Institute collaborating with Brazil’s Projeto Paradiso on this year’s cohort.
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NewsAfrican AuthenticA Series Lab participants include Ladj Ly school graduate (exclusive)
Four African screenwriters have been chosen for the second edition of the scheme.
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NewsVenice Final Cut 2023 includes project from Oscar-nominated director Scandar Copti
The programme supports work-in-progress films from Africa and the Middle East
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NewsRealness screenwriters residency participants include Cannes, Sundance filmmakers (exclusive)
Five screenwriters will take part in the six-week programme.
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NewsRealness selects nine African women for Locarno-linked industry development academy (exclusive)
The Locarno Southern Africa Industry Academy will run during FAME Week Africa in September.
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NewsYousry Nasrallah to receive Cairo Film Festival honorary award
Egyptian director has made films including Cannes 2012 Competition title ‘After the Battle’.
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NewsGlobal Screen boards Emily Atef’s Kenya-set AIDS drama ‘Mercy’ (exclusive)
UK-France-Germany co-production depicts the AIDS pandemic at the end of 1990s.
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NewsRed Sea Fund reveals eight grant winners including Cannes title ‘Omen’
Saudi, Arab and African talent supported in 2023’s first cycle of funding.
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NewsCannes Marche reveals plans for Arab-speaking MENA event (exclusive)
‘MENA 360’ will spotlight the production and film financing opportunities in the Arab world.
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NewsAfrica’s Realness Institute, Netflix name 12 participants for 2023 episodic, development schemes (exclusive)
Participants come from Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
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NewsRealness Institute partners with FAME Week Africa on three industry programmes (exclusive)
The Southern Africa-Locarno Industry Academy will be hosted with FAME Week in September.
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NewsMAD Solutions moves into sales with Cannes’ first Sudanese title ‘Goodbye Julia’ (exclusive)
Mohamed Kordofani’s debut feature will premiere in Un Certain Regard.
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NewsDW Akademie Film Development Fund selects 15 filmmakers from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda for grants
Recipients receive €10,000, training and mentoring.