Agency pledges to energy cross-border movie manufacturing

A brand new pan-African manufacturing help firm, Africa Fixers, has launched in Lagos to remove logistical bottlenecks and make movie and media manufacturing throughout Africa extra seamless.

The corporate, based by Nigerian journalist and producer Obaji Akpet, mentioned it goals to simplify manufacturing processes, strengthen native experience, and supply operational help to filmmakers and media organisations working throughout the continent.

In a press release, Akpet mentioned the initiative would assist unlock Africa’s storytelling potential by offering dependable native entry and structured help for productions.

The corporate mentioned it had assembled a community of greater than 100 vetted skilled fixers working throughout 40 African international locations to help movie and media initiatives.

Africa Fixers will present providers similar to location scouting, allow facilitation, logistics coordination, crew sourcing, cultural advisory, analysis, and full-field manufacturing administration.

Akpet mentioned the platform was created to make manufacturing actions in Africa extra environment friendly and globally aggressive. “Africa is without doubt one of the most dynamic storytelling environments on the planet. With Africa Fixers, manufacturing throughout the continent will turn out to be simpler, extra skilled, and globally aggressive. Producers can now work with confidence, understanding they’ve trusted specialists on the bottom,” Akpet mentioned.

He added that the corporate would bridge the hole between worldwide producers and African professionals whereas guaranteeing security, effectivity, and high quality supply on initiatives throughout the continent.

Africa Fixers additionally famous that it goals to empower native manufacturing fixers and encourage collaboration amongst professionals in numerous African international locations whereas strengthening the continent’s presence within the world media business.

Akpet, who based Black Letter Studios and Inform Africa, has labored with world broadcasters and impartial producers on a number of productions and constructed a status for supporting genuine African storytelling.