Production of fictional series in sub-saharan Africa

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched the Plan Images Afrique (Images of Africa Plan) as part of its policy to support cultural diversity. This plan has set up original funding mechanisms to directly benefit creators, production companies, and African public and private television companies. The aim is to help African professionals win back African audiences and thereby contribute to the emergence of a real audiovisual economy on the continent.

The Fonds Images Afrique (Images of Africa Fund) was created in January 2004 to support audiovisual production that seeks to promote the creation of local television and cinematographic works in the Sub-Saharan African countries. [1] It is thereby helping to enhance these countries’ television programme schedules by developing national production.

The vast majority of the television series projects submitted to the Fonds Images Afrique since 2004 have been miniseries. Series writing workshops held for television and independent production company scriptwriters in 2004 and 2005 have not as yet given rise to longer series projects.

As part of its assistance for the production of Sub-Saharan African audiovisual programmes, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs is launching a call for projects for light fictional television series from production companies with significant experience with a view to producing fictional series with a minimum of 40 episodes of either 13 or 26 minutes each .

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[1] Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zimbabwe.