Beneficiary Ardèche Images

Partners Dakar Images, Senegal
Les Films de l’Atelier, Senegal
Endemika Films, Madagascar
Lumière du Monde, France

Countries where the activities were carried out Madagascar, Senegal

Domain and disciplineTraining / Audiovisual

Amount allocated 460,000.00 EUR (72.51%)

Project duration 38 months
08/02/2014 -07/04/2017

Description Africadoc Production's overall objective is to professionalise the production of African creative documentary works. To do this, three main activities were implemented: training sessions; the creation of a business incubator to support film projects and the development of a directory of production companies and documentary films in Africa.

Results - The project helped to support the emergence of a new generation of African author-directors of creative documentary films; - The activities allowed the creation of the first incubator for audiovisual documentary production companies in West Africa; - Several documentary film projects focussing on topics with high societal impact (war orphans, refugees, jihadists, social reintegration of prisoners, women's rights, marine overexploitation, environment, youth, art and culture).

Key figures - 400 trained professionals - 32 documentary film projects in production

Beneficiary Cobiana Communications

Partners Africulturban, Senegal
ETS Zaza Productions, Mauritania

Countries where the activities were carried out Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal

Domain and disciplineDistribution / Music

Amount allocated 332,205.00 EUR (77.54%)

Project duration 36 months
1/03/2014 - 28/02/2017

Description The objective of the project was to contribute to the preservation and the promotion of cultural diversity, focussing in particular on the Bissagos Islands in Guinea-Bissau, by creating a network of three West African music festivals.

Results - The Bubaque Festival provided an opportunity for greater ceremonial coordination and collaboration across islands; - The network of stakeholders has been reinforced and micro-entrepreneurship business increased; - The action was able to generate short-term revenues (technical festival personnel, musical artists, hotels and tour operators, micro-entrepreneurs in food services, accommodation, event attendees, cultural industry policy makers). - Positive environmental impact was achieved through environmental education and the promotion of bio-diversity.

Key figures - 352 jobs created - 267 artists involved, 20,000 spectators - 36 people trained - 207 artistic groups promoted

Beneficiary Les Anneaux de la Mémoire

Partners African Slavery Memorial Society of Antigua and Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda
Association La Route des Chefferies, Cameroon
Association Touristique d’Haïti, Haiti
Fédération Nationale des Offices du Tourisme et des Syndicats d’Initiatives du Sénégal (FNOTSIS), Senegal

Countries where the activities were carried out Antigua and Barbuda, Cameroon, France, Haiti, Senegal

Domain and disciplineDistribution / Heritage

Amount allocated 500,000.00 EUR (55.29%)

Project duration 36 months
04/01/2014 – 03/01/2017

Description This action strengthened the cultural tourism industry around historical sites and locations linked to the black slave trade and slavery in Africa and the Caribbean. The project strengthened the professional skills of the sector operators and improved the creation of quality cultural goods and services, integrating the offer into the tourist distribution circuits.

Results - The remembrance sites and locations are better developed, protected and enhanced thanks to: rehabilitation works; exhibitions, signposting, visitor materials; - The cultural tourism offer is enriched and the history and remembrance sites and locations are at the heart of a cultural and tourism dynamic; - The visibility and resources of the cultural tourism industry have been increased.

Key figures - 1 tourist attraction called “History and Memory” in 3 countries - 1 travelling exhibition - 40 guides and site management staff trained

Beneficiary Doc Net, France

Partners Be Ka Films, Mali
Endemika Films, Madagascar
Inzo Ya Bizizi, Congo
HDR Communications, France

Countries where the activities were carried out Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Togo

Domain Distribution/Diffusion/Promotion

Amount allocated 380,000.00 EUR (76.94%)

Project duration 36 months
13/12/2013 -12/12/2016

Description Making African documentaries available through a film catalogue, DVDs and a web platform.

Results - The final beneficiaries (the partners) have expanded their network in the African audiovisual field and acquired skills in the field of film sales, negotiation and sales strategies for the African audiovisual market. - The target group (television stations) became aware of the need to broadcast high quality African programmes and African creative documentaries. They also understood the need to generate an economy for the rights holders and therefore to pay for the films; - The project has been useful for African independent producers, offering them other prospects for distribution, partnership and acquisition of rights.

Key figures - 1 VOD platform - 1 catalogue of more than 100 films - 50 films sold to African television channels

Beneficiary Buni Media Ltd, Kenya

Partners Soon SA, Senegal
IDmage, France

Countries where the activities were carried out France, Kenya, Senegal

Domain Audiovisual Diffusion

Amount allocated 500,000.00 EUR (80%)
31/12/2013 – 30/06/2015

Project duration 18 months

Description Through the Digital United ACP project, Buni.tv set up collaborative structures and developed a fair, common contract which greatly simplified the digital distribution process for filmmakers.

Results - The project allowed an enlargement of the platform’s catalogues and the development of partnerships with other distribution platforms; - ACP film industry stakeholders are aware of the opportunity to distribute their work through the partner platforms, and several have started to see some revenues; - ACP audiences have better, cheaper, wider access to ACP films, totaling over 18,000,000 online views for films from ACP areas that had not previously been so widely exposed.

Key figures - $100,000 generated by the partners on behalf of rights holders during the contract period - 100 new contracts with rights holders in 56 ACP countries, - 900 new titles

Beneficiary Goethe Institut, Germany

Partners Africa Culture Technologies (ACT), Senegal
ActivSpaces Association, Cameroon
Experimental Media Lab (Academy of Fine Arts), Germany
Awali Entertainment Ltd., Kenya

Countries where the activities were carried out Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa

Domain Distribution

Amount allocated 500,000.00 EUR (80%)

Project duration 26 months
01/04/2014 – 31/05/2016

Description Online information, film/visual media viewing and networking platform for audiences and professionals involved with African and Africa/Diaspora-related film and visual media.

Results - A well-functioning audience information portal integrating multiple information and video-on-demand websites disseminating content from or related to Africa; - A well-functioning online networking and professional exchange platform for industry practitioners from Africa and its diaspora; - A permanent network of IT specialists from Africa and Europe who share and spread the technical knowledge required for building Mokolo with professionals in the fields of IT and film and visual media production in Africa and its diaspora.

Key figures - 48,000 professionals consult the platform monthly - 8,000 works promoted

Beneficiary La Chauve-souris, France

Partners Astou Films, Senegal
Karonika Production, Mali

Countries where the activities were carried out France, Mali, Senegal

Domain Film Production

Amount allocated 498,000.00 EUR (28.56%)

Project duration 24 months
15/01/2014 – 14/01/2016

Description “Wùlu” is the first full-length feature film by the Malian filmmaker Daouda Coulibaly. It is a political thriller, offering a modern and up-to-date vision of Malian society. The project hinged on the production of the film, technical training activities and the development of a screening network in West Africa.

Results - ACP cultural operators in the audiovisual and cinema sector strengthened their structures and skills and are better able to produce ambitious projects; - Professionals in the sector (technicians and actors) strengthened their skills and experience in Senegal and Mali, encouraging their hiring on other local production projects; - The film helped raise awareness among young audiences about the issues of drug trafficking.

Key figures - 1 quality film in Mali - 36 paid jobs - 75 people trained

Beneficiary Institut Africain de Management, Senegal

Partners Rozifilms, Madagascar
People TV, France

Countries where the activities were carried out Senegal

Domain and disciplineTraining / Professionalisation / 3D Animation

Amount allocated 399,474.00 EUR (72.60%)

Project duration 36 months
11/09/2012 – 10/09/2015

Description The aim of "ACP 3D" was to create a perennial training network for 2D and 3D animation, targeting youths in ACP States. Over 18 months, ten selected interns were trained in 3D animation and produced 5 short training programmes for television.

Results - Capacity building of ACP countries in the design and production of 3D animations; - The training resulted in concrete professional opportunities for students; - A 2D and 3D animation production structure was created at the end of the project; - Fee-paying training in 2D and 3D animation arts and animation techniques was created in Senegal at the IAM school.

Key figures - 1 production studio for arts and animation techniques created - 10 people trained - 5 short films made

Beneficiary COL’Or Onlus - Camminiamo Oltre L'ORizzonte, Italy

Partners Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities, South Africa
The Kenya Union of the Blind, Kenya

Countries where the activities were carried out Kenya, Senegal

Domain and disciplineTraining / Radio

Amount allocated 379,373.00 EUR (80%)

Project duration 24 months
01/08/2012 – 31/07/2014

Description Aimed principally at physically handicapped (predominantly visual) professionals in Kenya and Senegal, DocuSound delivered a series of training courses in production and developed and broadcast radio documentaries.

Results - The project gave the opportunity to people with disabilities to make themselves heard in the media; - 2 websites created; - A network of professionals delivering radio content, regardless of the physical abilities of the members, has been built; - Documentaries were aired on 6 local community radios (some have an audience of over 1 million people) and are on line. Main issues of documentaries: social justice, human rights, health access, fair development; - Trainees have become trainers.

Key figures - 4 training courses and 26 disabled people trained - 26 documentaries

Beneficiary TV-Mobicine - Idmage, Senegal

Partners Studio Sankara, Senegal
Sarama Films, Mali
Mwem, Haiti
Al Tarab, Spain

Countries where the activities were carried out Haiti, France, Mali, Senegal, Spain

Domain Audiovisual Distribution

Amount allocated 800,000.00 EUR (80%)

Project duration 24 months
30/06/2012 - 29/06/2014

Description VOD platform for African and Caribbean films and mobile screenings

Results - The project contributed to better distribution and remuneration of ACP audiovisual production by digital means; - Thanks to the mobiCINE sessions, the action introduced cinema into popular education, especially among schoolchildren; - The project participated in the fight against piracy of films in ACP countries and in strengthening the skills of local technicians; - Partnerships have been established at continental and Caribbean level in the field of digital broadcasting of ACP films.

Key figures - 182,000 people reached by mobiCINE projections - 5 million people reached by VOD films - 50,000 euros of income returned - 2,700 ACP audiovisual works (films, series, documentaries) promoted

Beneficiary Mediatik Communication, Senegal

Partners Ecrans noirs, Cameroon
Mat Films, France

Countries where the activities were carried out Cameroon, France, Senegal

Domain Film Production

Amount allocated 285,080.00 EUR (37%)

Project duration 13 months
30/07/2012 - 05/08/2013

Description Directed by the young Senegalese filmmaker Hubert Laba Ndao, “Dakar Trottoirs”, an example of South-South cooperation, provided the opportunity to turn actors and technicians into professionals and, in the countries concerned, generate new cinematographic vocations focussed on modernity. Set primarily in Dakar, the film follows a group of teenagers with no family, free and on the fringes of society who, with their coming of age, find themselves confronted with a new set of dreams and ambitions.

Results - The project enabled professionalisation and capacity building of technicians and actors; - The film contributed to the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers; - Local service capabilities were strengthened.

Key figures - 1 quality film produced in Senegal - 100 paid jobs - 80 people trained

Beneficiary Circul’A Bema- Bureau Export de la Musique Africaine, Senegal

Partners Amicale des Artistes pour le Progrès (AAP), Benin
Cola Production, France
Harmonia LDA, Cabo Verde
Mass productions, Guinea
REPAC (Regroupement des Professionnels des arts et de la Culture d’Afrique Centrale), Cameroon
Tringa Musiques et Développement, Senegal
Umane Culture, Burkina Faso

Countries where the activities were carried out Cameroon, Senegal

Domain and disciplineDistribution/Promotion/Diffusion / Music

Amount allocated 490,000.00 EUR (76.12%)

Project duration 36 months
01/10/2012 – 30/09/2015

Description Creation of a network to encourage the mobility of artists and works as well as the structuring and exportation of music in Africa and elsewhere in the world.

Results - Networking, skills transfer and capacity building of music professionals were improved; - The BEMA network has expanded, artists registered with SIMA have joined the website, the selected groups have benefited from personalized support; - BEMA ensures better circulation of African cultural goods and services at national, regional and international level.

Key figures - 650 artists involved - 1,000 works promoted - 300 people trained - 14,000 spectators

Beneficiary Fondazione Ravenna Manifestazioni, Italy

Partners Kulungwana Associação para o Desenvolvimento Cultural, Mozambique
Association Takku Liguey de Ndiol Ndiaye, Senegal
Théâtre du Chocolat, Cameroon

Countries where the activities were carried out Cameroon, Italy, Mozambique, Senegal

Domain and disciplineDistribution/Production / Performing Arts

Amount allocated 454,055.78 EUR (80 %)

Project duration 29 months

Description The Network for African Talents contributed to the professionalisation and promotion of the artists and managers involved in live shows in Mozambique, Senegal and Cameroon. The project included concert production, training workshops and promotional actions for emerging artists in ACP states and in Europe.

Results - Increased promotion of creativity and artistic quality; - New productions in the fields of music and theatre have been created and their distribution has been improved; - A new generation of young talented artists has been promoted, through workshops, new productions and their presence at many important festivals; - Better access for local people to culture, music and theatre was achieved.

Key figures - 3 theatre productions, 28 performances - 2 music festivals - 24,000 spectators - 600 artists trained

Beneficiary Tringa Musiques et Développement, Senegal

Partners Amicale des Artistes pour le Progrès (Benin)
Irondel (Cameroon)
Cola Production (France)

Countries where the activities were carried out Benin, Cameroon, Senegal, France

Domain and disciplineCreation/Production / Music

Amount allocated 405,641.59 EUR

Project duration 36 months
01/01/2013 – 31/12/2015

Description The project allowed the festival "Africa Fête" to become itinerant in four countries: Benin, Cameroon, Senegal and France. More than 60 groups were programmed, improving the international mobility of artists and cultural operators.

Results - Mobility of African artists and cultural operators in Africa and Europe has been greatly encouraged; - The festival significantly increased its audience during all concerts and events; - Artists, structures, actors and cultural professionals participated in professional exchanges and strengthened their capacities.

Key figures - 81 shows with 200 musical formations - 4 countries visited, 16 countries represented - 50,000 spectators

Beneficiary Studios Kabako, République Démocratique du Congo

Partners Associaçao Culturarte - ACART, Mozambique, Association 1er Temps, Senegal

Countries where the activities were carried out Burkina Faso, DRC, Mozambique, Senegal

Domain and disciplineProduction & Training / Dance

Amount allocated 367,528.10 EUR (76%)

Project duration 33 months, 10/08/2012 – 09/05/2015

Description "Pamoja” is a capacity building programme for artists, technicians and company directors involved in the dramatic arts on the African continent. Nine works were guided over two years, primarily through residencies and guidance in co-production.

Results The project contributed to: - The development and structuring of performing arts in the DRC, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Mozambique; - The improvement of the quality, diversity and visibility of choreographic productions in these countries; - The professionalisation and structuring of the partner companies; - The emergence of new figures onto the African scene; -Mobility of artists.

Key figures - 21 artistic projects - 23 choreographic residencies - 67 artists from 16 different countries - 20,000 spectators