Africa-Press – Senegal. Seven series, including four Senegalese feature films, have been selected in the official competition of the first edition of the Pan-African Series Festival called « Dakar series », which opens next Tuesday. , until May 6 in the Senegalese capital, announced the director general of the event, Séraphine Angoula, at a press conference.
Twenty-four series will be in official competition and three out of competition during this first edition, she said during this meeting with the press organized on Wednesday in Dakar.
“We have seven Senegalese series, even eight, because there is a series produced and shot in Senegal. Senegal is well represented in the competition with Terranga, Salma, Emprises, Declines, Wara season 2, Vultures and Black Santiago club, a Senegal/Benin co-production,” she says.
Other series will be broadcast exclusively at Dakar series, reports the director general of the festival. They are five in number, including « Wara season 2 » scheduled to open on Tuesday at the Cinema Pathé Dakar.
The competition will include, among others, films from Cameroon, Togo, Benin, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Nigeria, Morocco, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, South Africa .
Séraphine Angoula points out that the jury for this first edition of Dakar series will be chaired by Senegalese producer and director Omar Sall. He will have at his side, the actress, singer and dancer Nathalie Vairac (France), the professor of literature and African civilizations Ibrahima Wane (Senegal), the actress and producer Aminata Diallo-Glez alias « Kadi Jolie » ( Burkina Faso) as well as the cinema and audiovisual producer Neigeme Glasgow-Maeda (Luxembourg).
The general manager reports that she has worked on the project for two years and is delighted that it can hatch in Dakar. « The festival aims to promote African creation in its diversity, we are focused on the series (…). It’s important to install it in Dakar because it’s the city of all the emergence of series, » she explains.
In addition to the screenings, Dakar series intends to promote the professions of technicians with the prizes for the best decor and editing, a workshop on acting, masterclasses with Aïssa Maïga, the godmother of the festival, the Burkinabe actress Mouna Ndiaye, the Senegalese director Fatou Kandé Senghor, among others.
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