Locarno: Festival’s Open Doors Program Names New Team for African Cinema Initiative

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Locarno: Festival’s Open Doors Program Names New Team for African Cinema Initiative
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Open Doors, which supports filmmakers from underrepresented communities, will focus on the cinema from the African continent for the next four years.

‘s Open Doors program, which supports filmmakers from underrepresented regions of the world, has unveiled a new team for its next four-year mission: To focus on supporting and elevatingfor the next four years, teaming up with pan-African film studio collective YETU Limited to help strengthen African cinemas’ ecosystem locally and boost the presence of African filmmakers internationally.

Ibee Ndaw from Gambia/Senegal joins as an Open Doors programmer, bringing extensive experience as a festival manager and sales agent. Producers Tiny Mungwe and Mitchell Harper from South Africa, who have 15 years of experience in pan-African community cinema, will serve as artistic consultants. The selection committee will feature prominent African filmmakers including as Angolan director and programmer Fradique Bastos, the Nigerian-American producer Melissa Adeyemo, and Burkinabé director Apolline Traoré. They will work alongside Locarno’s Julia Duarte to identify and support emerging talent.

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