Kourtrajme Collective opens a film school in Senegal

From Febuary 2021, the Kourtrajme Collective will open a film school in the Senegalese capital.A first on continent for this collective led by the Franco-Malian Director Ladj Ly to whom we owe the film Les Misèrables (2019). This school will be the third of the collective after those opened in 2018 in Clichy-Montvermeil and Marseille. For the first training session of this school, the training will focus on scriptwriting and directing. Applications are expected by 08 January 2021. The particularity of this school is that its is totally free and open to all.

The choice of Dakar to host this school is not insignificant. According to Toumani Sangaré, a Franco-Malian Director, founding member of Kourtrajme and Director of this new school, who was speaking to RFI: “Cinema in Africa is on a real rise, there are many talents today who are beginning to emerge, we are managing to carry out, I think, projects that a few years ago we could not manage to do… There is a new generation of Filmmakers, of Directors because the tools are being democratised, and today there is also an ecosystem that is being created, economic, the technicians are starting to be trained more and more, there are still efforts for us to make and therefore to get involved through this school to try to promote cinema, to develop cinema, to discover new talents, new points of view that we are not used to seeing”.

An initiative that will therefore expand the training offer on the continent for the benefit of booming industry.

You can still register until 8 January 2021: Dakar – Kourtrajme school

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