http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/14/africa-cannes-international-film-festival/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:11:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/14/africa-cannes-international-film-festival/comment-page-1/#comment-1454530 Mwangi - the Displaced African Thu, 15 May 2008 20:25:09 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/05/14/africa-cannes-international-film-festival/#comment-1454530 Speaking as an ex-film student I can give my take on why that is: 1) The arts are not highly valued in Africa and as such a lot of the bright minds forego film school in favour of white collar positions. 2) There are no societal incentives to go into film which results in the same consequence as number 1. 3) I don't know about other countries but in Kenya, the quality of the equipment is very low resulting in a poor quality product As far as I can tell these are among the primary reasons that a lot of sub-saharan Africa probably didn't even make enough movies to submit. As for why there were no Nollywood films...go figure....forget them anyway, let's make Lagos our arts capital :) Speaking as an ex-film student I can give my take on why that is:
1) The arts are not highly valued in Africa and as such a lot of the bright minds forego film school in favour of white collar positions.
2) There are no societal incentives to go into film which results in the same consequence as number 1.
3) I don’t know about other countries but in Kenya, the quality of the equipment is very low resulting in a poor quality product
As far as I can tell these are among the primary reasons that a lot of sub-saharan Africa probably didn’t even make enough movies to submit.
As for why there were no Nollywood films…go figure….forget them anyway, let’s make Lagos our arts capital :)

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