Investing in African Cinema Films

Film is an amalgamation of different artforms, incorporating writing, drama,cinematography, music etc, to me, it remains the greatest work of creativity. i choose to talk about this because Africa has so many stories of Independence, amalgamation, culture and diverse lifestyles which every film lover will definitely sit in the cinema to watch. the market is still lucrative; earlier than now, we the Nollywood film makers ran back to low budget films for home distribution when we realized that our market lives with us. but things are changing now, with our inquisitive attributes, we have understudied the process of Cinema film making; we have access to Full frame production equipments and above all, we have the stories.georgeostories can be your expert guide here, we want to do business with both local and international business men that can invest in Films. the market is secured now.

consider our options:

Go high and wide – release films at festivals, secure theatrical distribution before going to DVD, TV, Online streams. This route means competing head on in the cinema market with Hollywood, Bollywood and other big budget blockbusters.

Go wide and low – includes exploiting free to air TV, Cable TV, and Community TV platforms, going straight to DVD, using mobile TV and Internet online rental and offline purchase options, as well as the use of multiple internet promotional opportunities.
Africa needs filmmakers across all these sectors. We want flagship African films that will compete successfully in theaters, locally and globally, and develop return on investment throughout the value chain. Africa needs more producers and more distributors to engage with the challenges. We also have innovative low-budget films that tell local stories and provide viable economic opportunities.

During the colonial era, Africa was represented exclusively by Western filmmakers. The continent was portrayed as an exotic land without history or culture. Examples of this kind of cinema abound and include jungle epics such as Tarzan and The African Queen, and various adaptations of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel titled King Solomon's Mines. In the mid-1930s, the Bantu Educational cinema Experiment was carried out in order to educate the Bantu peoples.

In the French colonies Africans were, by law, not permitted to make films of their own. This ban was known as the "Laval Decree". The ban stunted the growth of film as a means for Africans to express themselves politically, culturally, and artistically. In 1955, however, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra - originally from Benin, but educated in Senegal - along with his colleagues from Le Group Africain du Cinema, shot a short film in Paris by the name of Afrique Sur Seine (1955). Vieyra was trained in film-making at the prestigious Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographique (IDHEC) in Paris, and in spite of the ban on filmmaking in Africa, was granted permission to make a film in France Afrique Sur Seine explores the difficulties of being an African in France during the 1950s and is considered to be the first film directed by a black African

Film Festivals in Africa (partial list)

Abuja International Film Festival (Nigeria)

Amakula Kampala International Film Festival (Uganda)

ANIMAFRIK (Ghana)

Cairo International Film Festival (Egypt)

Carthage Film Festival (Tunisia)

Dockanema (Mozambique)

Durban International Film Festival (South Africa)

Encounters South Africa International Documentary Festival

Ethiopian International Film Festival

FAKO Film Festival (Cameroon)

FESPACO PanAfrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (BurkinaFaso)

Festival du films de Dakar (Senegal)

Images That Matter international short film festival (Ethiopia)

Kenya International Film FestivalLola Kenya Screen

Marrakesh International Film Festival (Morocco)

Out in Africa South African Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (South Africa)

Rwanda Film Festival

Salaam Kivu International Film Festival (Congo)

Tri-Continental Film festival (South Africa)

Zanzibar International Film Festival (Tanzania)

Zimbabwe International Film Festival

Zuma Film Festival (Nigeria)

African Film Festivals (International)

Africa in the Picture (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

African Film Festival (Sydney, Australia)

Afrika Film festival (Belgium)

Africala African film festival of Latin America (Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil)

African Film Festival of Tarifa (Spain)

Afrika Eye (Bristol, UK)

African Diaspora Film Festival (New York, USA)

African Film Festival(New York, USA)

Annual Cascade Festival of African Film (Portland, USA)

Black International Cinema Berlin (Germany)

Images of Black Women Film Festival (London,UK)

Milan African Film Festival (Milan, Italy)

Pan African Film and Arts Festival (Los Angeles,USA)

To invest in African based Film Project contact georgeostories. 

Christmass Africana

I keep recieving mails from all over the world, asking me to tell them the story of Christmass in africa...my bakery had plenty of stuffs rising but i just had to squeeze out a little time to tell you about Cristmass Africana. you should start by learning how to Say Merry Christmas in Africa


In Akan (Ghana) Afishapa
In Zimbabwe Merry Kisimusi
In Afrikaans (South Africa) Geseënde Kersfees
In Zulu (South Africa) Sinifisela Ukhisimusi Omuhle
In Swazi (Swaziland) Sinifisela Khisimusi Lomuhle
In Sotho (Lesthoto) Matswalo a Morena a Mabotse
In Swahili (Tanzania, Kenya) Kuwa na Krismasi njema
In Amharic (Ethiopia) Melkam Yelidet Beaal
In Egyptian (Egypt) Colo sana wintom tiebeen
In Yoruba (Nigeria) E ku odun, e hu iye' dun!
There are approximately 350 million Christians in Africa. Christmas is celebrated throughout the continent by Christian communities large and small.  Meats are roasted, gifts are exchanged and family visits made. The Coptic Christians in Ethiopia and Egypt celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January (rather than the 25th of December) because they follow a different calendar. Kwanzaa is not celebrated in Africa, as it's an African-American holiday.

African people and groups of carolers walk around the village and sing Christmas carols. They then go to home to wear festive clothes and take love offerings for Jesus to the special service that is held at the house of worship. In the church, the birthday of Jesus is celebrated and people keep their gifts upon the raised platform near the Communion table. After the service, people invite friends to Christmas dinners arranged in front of their homes.

26th of December is known as the Boxing Day and is a proclaimed public holiday. It is the day to relax. In Ghana, on the west coast of Africa, churches and homes are decorated with the first week of Advent, four weeks before Christmas. Christmas time is the time for cocoa harvest and hence people have prosperous and money to spare. Everybody return to homes on Christmas Eve including farmers and miners. Children sing Christmas carols and march down the streets shouting, "Christ is coming!". In the evening, a special service is held in the churches, which are decorated with evergreen and palm trees and lighted candles. Nativity plays are conducted and people sing hymns. Everybody dresses up as Christmas angels on the main day and sing Christmas carols at home and dress up in native or Western attire for the church service.

If you are thinking of coming into Africa for Christmass, please do because we have that season celebrated in a way i called the Christmass Africana.
If you want to come over to where i am, write me and i will get our programs fixed, and believe me, i'm going to make you love Christmass. see you when you come.