The African Film Library has officially gone live. It’s an on-demand service that offers downloadable African films. The license allows you to download and access the movies for 24 hours.Jamati.com has a description of the service:
“M-Net has launched an African Film Library – the largest electronic library of feature films, shorts and documentaries from 50 years of African film production. Over the past three years, M-Net has been negotiating the rights to almost 600 works in English, French, Arabic and Portuguese and digitizing them.
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The online library aims to create a new audience for existing and emerging African filmmakers through the digital archive of the continent’s cultural cinematic heritage, and making African artists’ works easily accessible via the internet to a wide viewership around the worldwide. M-Net also plans to utilize conventional and new media (digital and internet broadband) distribution approaches to ensure maximum and sustained exposure of African films across the globe.”
The Marginal Revolution blog calls it a “landmark cultural achievement” and I would agree. It is a great way to increase global awareness of the inspiring work that has been coming out of Africa for decades. Unfortunately I can’t imagine it taking off here in Uganda, where it takes ten minutes just to watch a short YouTube video. I guess we’ll just have to wait for the EASSy fibre-optic cable to really appreciate it.
Hat Tip: Aid Thoughts
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