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 CINETOILE  Cinetoile Press Conference The main aim of the project is to encourage the promotion and distribution of African cinema in Africa. Cinetoile is a project set up by Africalia and funded by the European Commission. It is based on the principle that the prestigious works of African cinema need to be enhanced and that these works need to be recognised as elements of cultural heritage and as tools for dialogue between African peoples. The specific objectives of Cinetoile are: – to increase the capacity of operators in their field in the long term – to enable these operators, the partners, to access an increasingly wider audience, in particular by using the concept of the travelling cinema. – to increase awareness among target audiences who are socially, economically or geographically underprivileged as regards the expression and content of films from different African countries. – to increase awareness among culture professionals of the problems of distributing African films and the action taken by Cinetoile. Partner networking is the strategic axis for the development of the CineToile project. Expanding this network will bear witness to the viability of the action in the long term and thereby improve the capacities and structures for promotion and distribution in practice. The project partners come from various regions of the continent and actively promote African cinema. They complement one another through the diversity of their abilities and their cultures. The partners are to join forces to implement a wide-ranging plan to screen African films and together develop a series of activities, seminars and meetings. Cinetoile is to be officially launched during Fespaco 2009 (Pan-African Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou) and will draw to a close during Fespaco 2011 A report of CINETOILE on TV5 during the FESPACO http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/afrique/index.php?edition=20090307&par=7 |
