Africa-Press – Angola. Angolan artists advocated this Wednesday in Luanda for the opening of more cinemas, aiming to stimulate economic diversification and the evolution of the film industry in Angola.
This argument was made by filmmaker and producer Dorivaldo Cortez, and by the director of the Horizonte Njinga Mbandi group, Adelino Caracol, on the sidelines of the Film Festival held by the Metropolitan Polytechnic Institute of Angola (IMETRO), as part of World Cinema Day (November 5th).
For filmmaker Dorivaldo Cortez, the lack of cinemas in Angola discourages audiences due to the distance between citizens’ homes and film screening locations.
“Each municipality should have at least one cinema so that people don’t have so much difficulty traveling,” argued the director, who believes the Angolan public enjoys cinema.In his view, it will be difficult to talk about the development of cinematographic works without paying attention to the opening of more cinemas.
To reverse the situation of the lack of cinemas, he said that investment is needed from entrepreneurs, and not just from the State.
He stressed that entrepreneurs must look at market opportunities, the possibility of profit, to stimulate more training of human capital in cinema and more film productions.
The director of the Horizonte Njinga Mbandi group, Adelino Caracol, believes that with more cinemas, the country can gain in terms of economic diversity.
Therefore, he argued, the state of cinemas in the country should be reviewed to provide greater quality.”Many movie theaters today have become anything but movie theaters, so it’s important to see that,” he said.
The date aims to commemorate the first public film screening, held by the Lumière brothers in Paris in 1895.
On this day, the world celebrates the invention of the cinematograph, which allowed, for the first time, the projection of moving images to an audience, thus marking the birth of the “seventh art.”
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