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Locarno Film Festival 2025 - Building Sustainable Film Ecosystems in Africa - Panel - Mitchell Harper, Neigeme Glasgow-Maeda, Tshepiso Chikapa Phiri, Ema Edosio-Deelen, Yannick Mizero Kabano

Locarno Panel Champions Africa’s Self-Reliant Film Ecosystem

On 9 August, Hotel Belvedere’s Sala Granda hosted the Locarno Pro panel “Building Sustainable Film Ecosystems in Africa: Financing the Future” during this year’s Locarno Film Festival. The event brought together filmmakers and industry strategists from across the continent and beyond to explore inno…

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Festivals as Gatekeepers and Tastemakers: The Changing Landscape of Festival Distribution at IFFR

As the landscape of distribution and exhibition evolves, the role of festivals as ‘gatekeepers and tastemakers’ is being questioned more than ever before. Once seen as the primary arbiters of cinematic prestige, festivals now face stiff competition from distributors and streamers that increasingly s…

The Road To Recovery: Uganda’s Century Cinemax

From Entebbe’s palm-poked sandy beaches to the traffic-clogged streets of capital city Kampala, movie theatres in Uganda, operated by Century Cinemax, are flooding with customers again. At Acacia Mall in the capital, moviegoers queue outside the cinema for tickets, contributing to the comeback of an…

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CJ Interviews: Rob Arthur – DCS Events / Emerging Cinema Markets Conference

While cinemas in the Gulf region have been growing for several years, the announcement that Saudi Arabia is opening up its market to multiplexes has led to a surge in interest, with everyone from AMC and Cinepolis to Carnival and Vue clamouring for a piece of the local cinema action. This month…

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Vivendi to Open 100 Cinemas Across Africa

Vivendi has opened the first cinema in Cameroon. Canal Olympia is the first of 100 screen planned across Africa by the parent company of TV network Canal+.