The Africa Cinema Summit

The Africa Cinema Summit (ACS) is a three-day summit that brings stakeholders from the cinema industry value chain across the world to Africa.

The Africa Cinema Summit
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The Africa Cinema Summit (ACS) is a three-day summit that brings stakeholders from the cinema industry value chain across the world to Africa. The summit is unique as it is the first of its class to be held in Africa and it focuses on the peculiarities in the African cinema space as well as the challenges and the numerous opportunities the industry offers. This is a result-oriented summit, skewed towards creating a compelling and conducive avenue for participants to network, foster partnerships, generate leads, and possibly close deals during the event and thereafter.

The Africa Cinema Summit (ACS) is a three - day summit that brings stakeholders from the cinema industry value chain across the world to Africa Accra, Ghana. The summit is unique as it is the first of its class to be held in Africa and it focuses on the peculiarities in the African cinema space as well as the challenges and the numerous opportunities the industry offers.

This year’s edition aims to further consolidate the progress made in the African cinema industry, fostering collaboration, innovation, and sustainable growth. The 2024 summit will focus on the ‘Growth in quality of local content production and consumption driving the case for increased cinema investment’ the summit will further delve into ‘Reimagining and rethinking cinema for Africa’s mass market segment’. The Africa Cinema Summit 2024 will bring together Cinema exhibitors, builders and investors, industry leaders, filmmakers, producers, distributors, studios, policymakers, and stakeholders from across the continent and the globe. In addition to the theme and date announcement, the NFA also named their executive steering committee consisting of executives from the global cinema, content, and creative communities who will spearhead the summit alongside Ms Juliet Yaa Asantewa Asante, CEO of the National Film Authority of Ghana, and her team.

The 2023 edition yielded significant accomplishments, notably highlighted by the President of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo’s assurance to approve the Film Tax Incentive for the Ghanaian film industry. Furthermore, collaborative ventures were successfully established among African countries, with the Filmhouse Group committing to distribute Ghanaian films across Nigeria and other partner nations. In the same vein, Silverbird Ghana pledged to incorporate local snacks into their cinema foods and Ster-Kinekor, the leading cinema chain in Southern Africa committed to exploring e-sports in their cinemas.

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