Co-produced Treaties, Film Fund on the Agenda of the 3rd BRICS Film Festival – Variety

DURBAN – World leaders arriving in Johannesburg this week to strengthen trade links and boost the economies of the five member states at the annual BRICS summit, with delegations from Brazil, Russia, India, China and from South Africa met. Durban to highlight the cultural production of countries at the 3rd Annual BRICS Film Festival

Parallel to the Durban Film Festival, the BRICS festival opened on Sunday night with a splashy ceremony featuring live performances and short films from each of the member states. At Monday's Durban FilmMart, a delegation of filmmakers and cultural representatives from each nation gathered to see how the festival – still in its infancy – can lay the foundation for greater collaboration in the years to come. come.

much more in common with the BRICS countries than with our brothers and sisters in other parts of the world, "said South African filmmaker Xoliswa Sithole, who was among the organizers of the 39 this year's edition.

The film festival is more of a development festival. But over time, we should be able to make the BRICS Film Festival … a festival of quality films. We have the numbers, we have the culture, we have the expertise. "

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For the five-day festival, each member state will have a day devoted to the presentation of five of its recent films, with a South African opening on July 23. Two films from each nation were selected for the competition, with the festival's best films to be awarded at a closing ceremony on July 27th.

Contest titles include Craig Freimond's "Beyond the River" and Sean Drummond and Michael Matthews "Five Fingers for Marseilles" from South Africa; Dmitriy Kiselev's "The Age of Pioneers" and Aleksandr Khant's "How Victor & # 39; The Garlic" took Alexey's "The Stud" to the "Nursing Home," from Russia's "Kung Fu Yoga". Stanley Tong and the "I belong to you" of Zhang Yibai, Gabriel and the Fellipe Mountain Gamarano Barbosa and Joao Dumans Arab and Affonso Uchoa of Brazil

On Monday, a whole day was devoted to how the five BRICS nations can strengthen collaborations between the United States member, adding to a growing chorus in recent years.On the first BRICS Film Festival in 2016, the Minister of Information of the BRICS India, Venkaiah Naidu, discussed the possibility of concluding coproduction treaties with Russia and South Africa.The South African bizzers are in the process of concluding agreements with their Chinese and Brazilian counterparts.

that no agreement was reached at the time of the BRI festival CS was held this week in Durban, a session at the DFM was devoted to the production treaties – and a BRICS film fund currently under planning – can open opportunities for collaboration between filmmakers from the five countries.

A second session explored BRICS countries' distribution, sales, distribution and exhibition strategies. questions about local aesthetics, indigenous cultures, political frameworks and new distribution platforms, while asking how BRICS filmmakers can exploit the global media landscape.

A final session focused on the culture of animation and post-production in each country. future collaborations between their fast-growing animation industries.

While the organizers admitted Monday there is a long way to go, Sithole maintained that the BRICS countries "push the agenda of how we concretize the vision, because we have a lot in common . We do not need to reinvent the wheel. The platform is already there. "

She added," We can do this job. "