African film directors eye digital revolution
AFP - Tuesday, March 3
OUAGADUGOU (AFP) - - While growing numbers of African filmmakers are switching
to cheaper and easier to use digital cameras, the continent's biggest film
festival still insists on the classic 35mm format.
This poses a problem for many African filmmakers who say the digital camera is a
chance to boost film production on the continent as many ideas and projects now
languish in limbo waiting for financing.
"A feature filmed in 35 millimetre is a lot more expensive and time consuming,"
Ivorian director Lancine Fadika Kramo, who won the Pan-African Film and
Television Festival (FESPACO) grand prize in 1981 for his film "Djeli", told AFP.......More
