The Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, has confirmed his participation within the second version of the Africa Cinema Summit.
The three-day occasion, ranging from seventh to tenth October 2024 on the Movenpick Ambassador Lodge, aimed toward bringing stakeholders from the cinema trade worth chain the world over to Africa.
The Nationwide Movie Authority (NFA), the organisers of the summit on Thursday, September 5, 2024, paid a courtesy name to the King to formally invite him to the occasion, to which he joyfully agreed.
Accepting the invitation, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, a lover of arts and pioneer within the inventive trade, acknowledged the position of movie in tradition preservation and the necessity to encourage the manufacturing of movies that inform the Ghanaian story.
He additional pledged his assist to the trigger spearheaded by the Nationwide Movie Authority.
The summit is the primary of its sort to be held in Africa and it focuses on the peculiarities within the African cinema area in addition to the challenges and the quite a few alternatives the trade affords.
This can be a result-oriented summit, skewed in direction of making a compelling and conducive avenue for individuals to community, foster partnerships, generate leads and probably shut offers in the course of the occasion and thereafter.
The maiden version in 2023 introduced collectively numerous filmmakers from 20 African nations to Ghana for diverse conversations on rising cinema on the continent.
This yr’s version goals to additional consolidate the progress made within the African cinema trade, fostering collaboration, innovation and sustainable development.
The 2024 summit will concentrate on the expansion in high quality of native content material manufacturing and consumption driving the case for elevated cinema funding.
The delegation was led by the Govt Secretary of the Nationwide Movie Authority (NFA), Juliet Yaa Asantewaa Asante, comprised of different NFA officers akin to Gyasiwa Ansah, Head of Manufacturing and Daniel Amoateng, Head of Movie Classification.
The Africa Cinema Summit, organised by the Nationwide Movie Authority, is in partnership with Filmhouse Group (Nigeria), Silverbird Cinema (Ghana), Cinema Exhibitors Affiliation of Nigeria, Century Cinemax (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), and Canal Olympia, amongst others.