The first-ever Toronto film market, running as part of the Toronto Film Festival, will have a robust contingent of African filmmakers, executives and industry professionals on the ground.
Producers at TIFF: The Market look to capitalize on the festival’s historically strong position as a platform for some of the continent’s most diverse and exciting talents.
Charles Tremblay, who heads up the market, says the event is “is designed to build on the festival’s legacy of creating access and opportunities for global content to be discovered and relevant topics to be explored.
“We’re excited to continue our long-standing and fruitful relationship with the African continent through a variety of market initiatives for companies and creatives,” he says. “We’re very interested in the financing, production and distribution landscape in the continent at the moment … [and] our Summit programming echoes this interest.”
Anchoring the activities will be the Global Africa Hub, a pavilion for African creatives sponsored by Canex Creations, the pan-African initiative launched by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to finance, support and promote Africa’s creative and cultural industries. The hub is presented in partnership with Nigerian private equity firm MBO Capital, South African genre powerhouse Gambit Films, Nigerian production outfit Narratives Entertainment, and leading Nigerian production and distribution company FilmOne.
