Five Takeaways from the 10th Durban FilmMart

Netflix quietly took meetings with African producers throughout the week in Durban, underscoring the growing global demand for African content. That wasn’t the case even a few years ago, when foreign buyers “would not even take the time” to consider local content, said Betty Sulty-Johnson, VP of content distribution at international urban media company Trace.

” In African filmmaking, the future is now.The first edition of Durban Does Docs, a DFM strand devoted to documentary filmmaking, stressed the need for more engagement and development to reach local audiences. “I think the particular disconnect with documentary is more a result of distribution and access than desire,” said Hot Docs’ Nataleah Hunter-Young, the documentary programmer for this year’s Durban film fest.

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