StarTimes launches online film fest
Digital terrestrial television and satellite television services company, StarTimes, is launching the first edition of its Pan-Arican Online Film Festival, (PAOFF). The festival which is a quarterly online film awards competition, and is open to all local professional film and music video producers, runs on the mobile application StarTimes ON. A statement by StarTimes, said […]
Videos will be listed and ranked according to votes for PAOFF
Digital terrestrial television and satellite television services company, StarTimes, is launching the first edition of its Pan-Arican Online Film Festival, (PAOFF).
The festival which is a quarterly online film awards competition, and is open to all local professional film and music video producers, runs on the mobile application StarTimes ON.
A statement by StarTimes, said the new platform is a fan’s voting system for all videos that are qualified for the awards competition, which will include favorite film ranking board, favorite short film ranking board, and favorite MV board.
According to the statement, all videos will be listed in the three boards based on their categories, and rank according to votes from StarTimes ON users. No.1 video of each board will win the quarterly Best Film Award, Best Short Film Award and Best MV Award, whose producer will get USD 1,500 as prize.
Ariel Wang, Operation Director of StarTimes ON, quoted in the statement said, “It is an online age and local online video contents will be an important pillar of StarTimes ON’s content strategy.
“That’s why we establish PAOFF awards and we sincerely hope the awards competition will encourage the development of local online video creation and see the rise of African online video industry.”