The Feature Film Co-Production Forum (FFCF) seeks to present high quality feature film projects from Southern Africa to international producers with the possibility of co-production.
Projects presented in the forum need to have secured either 20% of their budget and/or a pre-sale and/or a key director and key cast in order to qualify for selection.
In addition, the majority of the projects presented at the FFCF at Sithengi will have gone through a mid-year preliminary forum, where producers pitched their projects to a panel of local financiers, distributors, exhibitors and executive producers in an attempt to secure local co-financing partnerships.
These local corporate bodies included the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), Ster Kinekor, Nu Metro, SABC, The Imaginarium, Videovision, and the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF). By the time projects are presented at the FFCF at Sithengi they are well developed in terms of seeking international finance and co-production partners.
The FFCF, modeled on Rotterdam's Cinemart, involves several half-hour one-on-one meetings set up between local producers and participating international producers, sales agents, financiers and distributors. The international players select the projects/producers with whom they would like to meet and the meetings are set up accordingly. The objective of the FFCF is to ensure that local projects will be ‘matched' with the correct people - those who are genuinely interested in the project with the capacity to come on board with either financing or as a co-producer.
The Forum is a closed event, open only to those participating and will take place on the 15th, 16th and part of the 17th November on the 3rd Floor Chandelier Balcony of the Artscape.
Posted on Thursday 6 Oct 2005
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