Senegal: the film school of the Kourtrajmé collective opens its doors

Ladj Ly (photo) and the Kourtrajmé collective are opening a film school in Dakar.

Registrations for the screenplay course are open until January 8, fans are advised!

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In Dakar, the film school of the French collective Kourtrajmé will open its doors in February 2021. After school in Clichy-Montfermeil and Marseille, Ladj Ly, director of the caesarized film “Les Misérables” on police violence, chose Senegal to open the collective's first school on the African continent.

Registrations are open.

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Dakar is a hub for film and audiovisual production in Africa, hence the choice of this city to open the school run by Ladj Ly and his collective 

Kourtrajmé

, born in the 1990s in the east of Paris.

The first screenwriting and directing-post-production training courses are open and the call for applications for the screenplay writing session lasts until January 8.

So there are still a few days left, recalls Toumani Sangaré, Franco-Malian director, founding member of Kourtrajmé and director of this new school in Dakar, which will be "free and open to all".

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Cinema in Africa is on a real rise, there are a lot of talents today that are starting to emerge, we are managing to realize I think, projects that a few years ago we still could not do ,

explains Toumani Sangaré to our correspondent in Dakar,

Théa Ollivier

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There is a new generation of filmmakers, directors because the democratization of tools is taking place, and today there is also an ecosystem that is being created, economic, technicians who are starting to be more and more trained, there are still efforts for us to make and therefore get involved through this school to try to promote cinema, develop cinema, discover new talents, new points of view that we do not have. used to see.

On the continent today we have a cinema not sufficiently accessible to the population and to a large audience, the series have arrived there on the other hand for the cinema unfortunately it is still too much cinema counted at festivals, accessible only to festival-goers, professionals, we must now be able to bring cinema to a more popular level

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