Netflix and UNESCO launch short film competition

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• Netflix and UNESCO have introduced a limited film competitors throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Themed, African Folktales Reimagined it is motivated by African Union 2063 Agenda’s Aspiration 5, which celebrates African cultural identity.
• Winners will be educated and mentored by field industry experts and be specified a spending budget to produce quick movies that will be screened on the streaming service in 2022.
• The competitors will operate from 14 Oct till 14 November 2021.

Netflix and UNESCO have partnered to start short film opposition African Folktales, Reimagined across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Winners will be trained and mentored by business industry experts and presented a $75 000 production finances to create shorter movies that will premiere on the streaming services in Netflix in 2022 as an “Anthology of African folktales”.

According to a push release, the opposition is to find out new voices and give emerging filmmakers in Sub-Saharan Africa visibility globally.

“We want to discover the bravest, wittiest, and most stunning retellings of some of Africa’s most-cherished folktales and share them with entertainment fans all over the earth in in excess of 190 nations.”

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The opposition, which Dalberg will administer, will open up from 14 October 2021 until 14 November 2021.

Each individual of the six winners will get a output grant of US $75 000 (by a neighborhood production firm) to create, shoot and article-produce their movies below the advice of industry mentors chosen by UNESCO & Netflix to ensure every person concerned in the manufacturing is reasonably compensated. In addition, every of the six winners will also get $25,000.

The theme – African Folktales, Reimagined – is influenced by African Union 2063 Agenda’s Aspiration 5, which celebrates African cultural identity, popular heritage, values, and ethics. This competition aims to harness this important custom with a fashionable outlook though leveraging new mediums of distributing artistic and inventive content material, like Netflix.

For the very first spherical, applicants will be essential to post a synopsis of their idea (no much more than 500 text) and inbound links to a new CV and a portfolio/evidence of any past audiovisual do the job they have manufactured. Applications can be submitted by way of www.netflix-growcreative.com/unesco from 14 Oct at 16:00 CET and will near on 14 November 2021 at 13:59 PM CET.