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The National Film Authority (NFA) has entered into a partnership with leading American distribution company, Indie Rights.
The partnership is to help push Ghanaian film content to the rest of the world after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo launched a USD$25 million Presidential Film Pitch Series.
A statement by the NFA said, “This important announcement is coming off the back of the launch of the Presidential Film Pitch Series by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, where he reiterated the ultimate drive to position Ghana as a film hub in the region and to get Ghanaian content to the world.
“The Presidential Pitch Film Series is a pipeline facilitation programme to help fuel the value chain of the film sector by providing a vibrant market place where great film projects within the Ghanaian film ecosystem can connect with investors, sponsors, agents, distributors, broadcasters, and platforms for business to happen.”
The statement added that the partnership makes it possible for Indie Rights to offer the very best audience opportunities to the more than 800 filmmakers they work with, especially during their yearly exhibits.
Indie Rights, one of the world’s leading distribution companies, has partnerships with Amazon, Google, AppleTV, TubiTV, among others.
The National Film Authority is a regulatory body as far as filmmaking is concerned, and provides the legal framework for the production, regulation, nurturing and development of the Ghanaian film industry, and for the distribution, exhibition and marketing of films and related matters.
The National Film Authority recently initiated talks with Open Foundation West Africa, affiliated to Wikimedia, the company behind Wikipedia, to set in motion the NFA Wikiproject.
The NFA Wikiproject is intended to profile various prominent filmmakers and projects within the Ghana film ecosystem and make such information available and accessible to all through Wikipedia and the NFA website.