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(PRWEB) August 9, 2005 -- Africast Television Network
has launched America's first Pan-African movie channel
offering popular African movies, dramas and
documentaries as subscription video on demand at its
Website. Internet Marketing Consortium, an international
marketing company, is investing $1.5 million in Africast
on marketing and promotions aimed at U.S. and worldwide
audiences. Several award-winning films featured on
Africast's online movie channel, include:
-- The Campus Queen, premiering on Africast, exclusively
in the U.S., is celebrated Nigerian filmmaker Tunde
Kelani's campus caper of music and rival student
organizations, explored earlier in Spike Lee's School
Daze. “The African film industry has come a long way,”
says Kelani. “I'm inspired by the growing market for
African films and distribution channels like Africast
TV, a leading outlet for quality movies depicting
authentic African life. I look forward to the premiere
of The Campus Queen and presenting future works on
Africast.”
-- La petite vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl Who
Sold the Sun), rated one of the year's 10 Best Films in
2000 by the Village Voice, is about a determined
crippled girl reinventing herself as Senegal's first
female newspaper vendor.
-- Dôlè (Money) offers a perspective on the crisis
facing today's youth. With family and social structures
crumbling, they increasingly rely on each other and pop
culture, revealing that, whether in Gabon or elsewhere,
youthful disaffection is remarkably similar.
--Sango Malo (The Village Teacher), Brazilian educator
Paolo Freire's intimate portrait of social and economic
changes in an African village in Cameroon that contrasts
two views of education: traditional, “Eurocentric”
curriculum that produces docile colonial administrators,
versus the practical skills needed to build self-reliant
rural communities.
Previews, programming and subscription details are at
www.africast.tv.
For $9.95 per month, subscribers can access 50 hours of
film and drama programming which is refreshed by 10
additional hours of new programming each month. Africast
is negotiating with Comcast and other cable companies to
expand its service to selected cities.
“Culturally and politically, Africa is poised to undergo
more changes and wield more influence in the world than
ever before,” says John Sarpong, Africast Chairman and
CEO. “However, much of what is shown about Africa is a
view from outside, seen through eyes that are not
African and, in some cases, not Africa friendly. Only if
Africans can present their stories to the world will
Africa gain renewed respect and realize her promising
future. Our mission is to provide a global voice for
Africans to tell their own stories."
Africast TV provides general audiences with an
entertaining and informative window into the richness
and promise of Africa and fills a void in the global
African market by providing intelligent and appealing
entertainment to a community that is aware of its
heritage and hungry for quality programming.
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