Screen Africa talks to GFI and other funders about what it means to “support” Africa
“The revered Senegalese filmmaker Ousame Sembene once said that ‘funds make beggars out of Africans.’ [GFI Director of Programs, Santhosh Daniel] responds, ‘This is always an interesting question to consider, and I think it truly depends on how the funds are given: to support the growth of African cinema or to seed and appropriate stories that support a western notion of Africa and ultimately, prove to be more profitable for the world external to Africa, than Africa itself.”
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