AWOTELE IS BACK!
Launched in 2015, AWOTELE was a self-funded print magazine published by Sudu Connexion during 23 editions until 2023, 48 full-color pages, in French and English, three times a year to coincide with the Fespaco (Burkina Faso), the Carthage International Film Festival (Tunisia), and the Durban FilmMart (South Africa).
The magazine also had a film column on TV5 Monde and a partnership with the TV show Ciné Le Mag on Canal+ before the entire team resigned…
Five years after its last issue (No. 23), published at the 2022 Carthage Film Festival, we are pleased to relaunch as a website entirely dedicated to the continent’s film news.
Each week, we’ll cover features on film professionals (Talents), film spotlights (Close-Up), a variety of film news (Flash), films opening in commercial theaters across Africa (Now Playing), as well as financial opportunities (Business). And we’ll be sure to give a voice to those working on the continent through our Opinion section…
Thanks to the support of Africa No Filter and the Fondation africaine pour l’éducation, AWOTELE comes back in 2026 as a news website dedicated to the actuality of African films, with a special focus on films theatrically released on the continent, and opinion pieces by African film professionals.
Discover our first Opinion piece: Rethinking African Cinemas: Why Plurality Matters by the film critic Charles Ayetan (Togo).
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For press enquiries, please contact:
Sharlene Versfeld | Publicist | [email protected]
The 17th edition of Durban FilmMart, in association with MultiChoice and principal funding from the National Lotteries Commission, is supported by the following funders and partners:
eThekwini Municipality, Durban Film Office, Ford Foundation, National Film and Video Foundation, Hollywood Foundation, MTN Group, KwaZulu-Natal Tourism and Film Authority, Expertise France and GIZ, The International Emerging Film Talent Fund, NEFTI, Industrial Development Corporation, Netflix, CNC, Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, Arab Culture Fund, Avalon Group, French Institute of South Africa, Animation SA, African Producers Accelerator, Berlinale Talents, Canada High Commission of South Africa, Caribbeantales and the Cross Continental Forum, Chiriseri Studios, Climate Story Labs Africa, Cape Town International Animation Festival, Department of Communication and Digital Technology, Disabled Audio-Visual Worker’s Network, Documentary Filmmakers Association, Durban International Film Festival, Doc Society, Documentary Africa, Durban University of Technology, Eastern Cape Development Corporation, Embassy of Cote d’Ivoire, European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, FIVA, FIPRESCI, Gauteng Film Commission, Independent Black Filmmakers Collective, IMPACT (Canada), Independent Producers Organisation, Habesha Creative, Ladima Foundation, Nature Environment Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF), South African Audio Visual Cluster, South African Guild of Actors, South Africa Guild of Editors, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Storyboard Collective, Sisters Working in Film and Television (SWIFT), Palestine Film Institute, Tunga Media Afrika, WGSA, WiC. Media Partners include Arena Holdings and Variety.