African Cinema Conference presents... LA AFRICAN MARKETPLACE (8/17-19) You are invited to join the Global Cinema & Urban Music Festival, August 17-19, during the 18th Annual African Marketplace & Cultural Faire, which features Ambassadors Stevie Wonder and Assemblyman Mark Ridley Thomas.
One of our major goals is to create an avenue by which people of color can control the economics related to how their images are spread throughout the world. Our first step is to look at the 49 Pan African film festivals around the world and see how we can leverage their power to destroy the myth there is not international market for films that feature people of color in prominent roles. The first African Diaspora Cinema Symposium was held in Salvador, Bahia Brazil December 2002 to explore how to produce a series of cinema symposiums that will become a Clearinghouse Cinema Festival to create a new type of marketing and distribution for films and filmmakers of color around the world, specifically in key countries of the African Diaspora. After attending this symposium, James Burks, Founder and CEO fo the African Marketplace, Inc. and Rashid Bahati, President and CEO of iMedia Marketing Group expanded this vision to the Global Cinema & Urban Music Festival which will be held on the USC campus. Components of this symposium will travel to Jordan in September 2003; Bahia Brazil in December 2003 and the Agora Festival Series in Cannes May 2004. We invite you to come share your expertise during our symposium and get in on the ground floor of a historical movement. Workshop topics include: Business For of the Festival Presenter: State funded vs. NGO; Marketing Research: Audience Development, the Virtual Festival & Cultural Tourism; Impact of the Major Festivals on the Local Presenter; Impact of the Major Studios on the Local Presenter; Festival Portal & Networking; and a Pan African Film Screening. We will also present a case study of a film that was shot on digital and transferred to film and then played the festival circuit. We will explore how digital technology which has reduced the cost of making the product, now we can control the means of exposure and thereby control the content and images that are put on the screen. We go from script, to financing, to marketing and distribution. The Urban Music Initiative will examine: “Hip Hop: The State of the Movement; The Hip Hop Aesthetic; Networking & Marketpalce; A&R Workshops, Talent Competitions, Showcase & Awards; and Summit Development: Products, merchanding & Futher Meetings. We need your help to begin to focus attention on the vast market and resources that are available in the film and music community of the African Disapora. We look forward to your participation in Global Cinema & Urban Music Festival. --- You are currently subscribed to african-cinema-conference as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
