The NFVF will be conducting virtual classes which will be facilitated by local industry experts. Mandla Dube is one of the selected facilitators and he has invited Effie T Brown to be a guest on one of his sessions. Effie will be talking about producing skills and financing opportunities in the USA. She will be presenting on the 10th September 2020 at 17:00 – 18:00.
NFVF have reserved this session
for local black female film producers so that they can empower and celebrate
them. They have therefore invited the IPO to nominate ten local black female
producers who may be working on their own narrative projects to participate in
the session.
Interested IPO members should put
their names forward with a 1 paragraph motivation detailing their project
status, current challenges and desired outcomes sent to administrator@ipo.org.za by
the close of business 2 September 2020.
More about Effie:
“As a black female producer
who’s been in the business for over 20 years, I know how hard it is to not only
get into the room but to then secure financing when you have a culturally
diverse or gender specific point of view,” said Brown. “What also makes us
different is that the diversity of our content is as diverse as our investor
pool. Our investors understand that it is going to take all of us pooling our
monies together to ensure that these inclusive voices are given the opportunity
to own their story from script to screen.”
