Content Shop New Path Ways: From the Seed – Audience Development Through Alternative Screening

Session Description

Audiences play a key role in sustaining the culture of cinema and ensuring its future. This panel looks at filmmaking collectives and organisations from across Africa who work to cultivate and retain audiences through different methods and models. We discuss the importance of developing grass root audiences; the necessity of showcasing independent African cinema to them; and how technology plays a role in securing a future for the cinema industry.

Speakers:

SYDELLE WILLOW SMITH (SUNSHINE CINEMA)

MOSES SERUGO (KAMPALA NIGHTS)

DERIN AJAO (SCREEN A LOUD)

MUGAMBI NTHIGA (ROGUE CINEMA SOCIETY)

JIHANE BOUGRINE

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