Subscribers received this newsletter during the festival last month. What it says hasn’t changed: African film activity is real, ongoing, and resourceful, but fundamentally under-supported locally, operating largely within informal networks, through personal sacrifice and collective effort, with little institutional infrastructure to sustain it in the long term.
The risk isn’t lack of creativity, ambition, or persistence. The risk is burnout.
Read or listen to what was captured, not on panels or formal interviews, but in the gaps between them.
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