Tarifa African film festival offers movies online

Due to cooperation with AfricaFilms.tv, film fans can watch movies from the 500 films rich FCAT library on the video-on-demand platform when it launches commercially in June. A legal and commercial downloading platform, available worldwide, guarantees fair revenue to African filmmakers and producers. AfricaFilms.tv is very transparent and straight forward. “It is commercial, but the […]

Due to cooperation with AfricaFilms.tv, film fans can watch movies from the 500 films rich FCAT library on the video-on-demand platform when it launches commercially in June. A legal and commercial downloading platform, available worldwide, guarantees fair revenue to African filmmakers and producers. AfricaFilms.tv is very transparent and straight forward.

“It is commercial, but the focus is on the African filmmaker. Right holders get 50 per cent of revenue, have online access to the back office and the cession of rights is non-exclusive,” says AfricaFilm.tv CEO, Mr. Enrico Chiesa.

“We hope to provide the platform with 20-30 titles from our library per year,” says Mrs. Mane Cisneros, director of FCAT, adding that “securing the rights and all the materials related will take time and effort, but we are convinced this is the right platform for us and for the filmmakers.”

Filmmakers from all over Africa can until February 25th, send their films to FCAT’s committee, which is in charge of selecting movies for the competition and non-competition sections of the festival.

At the same time, African photographers can send their entries for the 4th PhotoAfrica until March 1st.