The Locarno Movie Competition has introduced the line-up for the twenty third version of its Open Doorways program, which can give attention to filmmakers from international locations in Africa.
Six initiatives in improvement have been chosen to take part within the co-production platform, Open Doorways Initiatives. The titles are listed under:
- Congolese documentary Les Bilokos (Bilokos) directed by Erickey Bahati and produced by Giresse Kassonga for Gikas Movies;
- Documentary-animation hybrid Journal Intime d’une Femme-Chèvre (Diary of a Goat Lady), a co-production between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso, represented by director Azata Soro and producer Nameita Lica Toure (Les Studios Indigo)
- Ethiopian The Lucky, a darkish comedy by director Habtamu Gebrehiwot and producer Nahusenay Dereje (MTF Multimedia)
- Nigerian reincarnation romance Kachifo (Until The Morning Comes) by Dika Ofoma (director) and Blessing Uzzi (producer, Bluhouse Studios)
- Lutteurs (Fighters), a Senegalese wrestling household drama by director Alassane Sy and producer Jules Dieng (Thiely Movies)
- Zimbabwean supernatural thriller Black Snake by director Naishe Nyamubaya and producer Sue-Ellen Chitunya (263 Reels Productions).
The Open Doorways Producers program, a career-building initiative for inventive producers, has chosen six members representing six totally different international locations. They’re: Kamy Lara (Angola), Moustapha Sawadogo (Burkina Faso), Leul Shoaferaw (Ethiopia), June Wairegi (Kenya), Yannick Mizero Kabano (Rwanda), and Kudakwashe Miss Maradzika (Zimbabwe).
At Locarno, on August 12, a panel {of professional} jury members will grant awards to the chosen successful initiatives. They embrace the Open Doorways Grant of CHF 50,000 sponsored by visions sud est and the Metropolis of Bellinzona; the CNC Improvement Prize value EUR 8,000; and the Arte Kino Worldwide Prize of EUR 6,000.
The Open Doorways initiative was launched by the Locarno Movie Competition in 2003, in subsequent collaboration with the Swiss Company for Improvement and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Division of International Affairs (FDFA).
