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Friday, November 21, 2008
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FAME is a project that is aimed at developing and promoting Movie and Entertainment in Africa through a concept that will involve a nationwide story/script writing contest with an auditioning to select potential actors/actresses who will feature along side top Nigeria Nollywood Stars in a movie authored and produced in a host country where the project is set.
The project will be organized in four phases beginning with the input of the academia and the general society in a nationwide script/story writing competition to select the best stories that will be auditioned for in the second phase “Be a Movie Star” TV Show and transformed into a movie (Third Phase) that will be premiered in the final Phase “A Film Festival”.
Phase One: Script/Story Writing Contest
• A nationwide script/story writing contest will be instituted to select the best stories that
will form the basis of the “Be a Movie Star” auditioning.
• Participation will cut across all genre of the society with more focus on the education and media sector.
• Interested participants will be expected to submit their stories as a movie script, play or in essay format.
• All entries will be evaluated by professionals and the best ten stories/scripts and the bio-data of their authors will be published and reviewed
in different national newspapers, Fame Africa website and read in different radio stations.
• Public participation will be elicited by informing them to vote for their best of the ten published stories/scripts.
• The story/script with the highest number of votes will be transformed into a movie that wil be shot in the Gambia.
• Authors of all the ten published scripts will be adequately rewarded to encourage them and others that have similar talents.
• The author of the winning script/story will go home with a cash prize and will play a lead role in the movie and also make a special appearance at the movie premiere ( Film Festival).
Phase Two: “Be A Movie Star Auditioning” Reality TV Show
• The “Be a Movie Star auditioning” is a reality TV based show to select potential actors/actresses that will feature in the movie adopted from the winning story of the scriptwriting contest.
• The auditioning will be supervised by a team of professionals selected from the movie and television industry in Nigeria and the Gambia.
• Participation will be open to everyone (children, teens, youths and adults) and roles to be auditioned for will be generated from the scripts/stories received in the writing contest and categorized accordingly.
• Viewers will reserve the rights to choose their best actors/actresses by voting.
• Successful actors/actresses will be on their road to stardom as they will feature alongside top Nollywood (Nigerian Movie Stars) and international in the movie.
Phase Three: “Making (Shooting) of the Movie”
• The production and shooting of the movie will be done in the Gambia.
• The process of the movie making and behind the scenes activities will form part of a television series which will be on DSTV and syndicated to selected TV stations in Africa.
• Viewers will have the opportunity to follow the procedure of how a movie is produced.
• Movie and entertainment enthusiast will undergo training by during the making of the movie by being attached to the technical production team.
Phase Four: “Fil Festival (Premiere)”
• Theilm Festival will form the culmination of the FAME project and would be a socio-cultural event to celebrate the artistry and heritage of the Gambia.
• With the aim of placing the Gambia in a vantage position in the African movie industry, this film festival will permit movie entries from other countries within the African continent.
• It will be organized along the same concept with the Cannes and Toronto Film Festival, but with a major focus on African Films.
• One of the greatest high-points of the festival will be the premiere of the movie from the winning script of the FAME project and an appearance of all the cast as selected from the “Be a Movie Star auditioning” Reality TV Show.
• The festival will also form a tourism developmental package to open up a panorama and the rich socio-cultural heritage of the Gambia to the world.
BENEFITS OF FAME
• Fame Africa will present an opportunity to develop the Gambian countries Movie, Entertainment industry with an attendant increase in revenue generation for the country.
• The project will also impact positively on the country’s academic sector through a career-inspiring opportunity that will engage the minds of the youth and the general public.
• The project also presents an opportunity to make Gambia the hub of West African movie practice and professionalism.
• It also presents an opportunity for the country to exploit the numerous economic advantages of the entertainment industry.
• The countries media industry will also gain international recognition by leveraging on this project to promote its professionalism.
• The Film Festival will present an opportunity to promote the socio-cultural heritage of the country and expand its tourism potentials.
• The project will create youth development and build capacities for talents that have the potential of bringing worldwide acclaim to his/her country.
FAME is a project that is aimed at developing and promoting Movie and Entertainment in Africa through a concept that will involve a nationwide story/script writing contest with an auditioning to select potential actors/actresses who will feature along side top Nigeria Nollywood Stars in a movie authored and produced in a host country where the project is set.
The project will be organized in four phases beginning with the input of the academia and the general society in a nationwide script/story writing competition to select the best stories that will be auditioned for in the second phase “Be a Movie Star” TV Show and transformed into a movie (Third Phase) that will be premiered in the final Phase “A Film Festival”.
Phase One: Script/Story Writing Contest
• A nationwide script/story writing contest will be instituted to select the best stories that
will form the basis of the “Be a Movie Star” auditioning.
• Participation will cut across all genre of the society with more focus on the education and media sector.
• Interested participants will be expected to submit their stories as a movie script, play or in essay format.
• All entries will be evaluated by professionals and the best ten stories/scripts and the bio-data of their authors will be published and reviewed
in different national newspapers, Fame Africa website and read in different radio stations.
• Public participation will be elicited by informing them to vote for their best of the ten published stories/scripts.
• The story/script with the highest number of votes will be transformed into a movie that wil be shot in the Gambia.
• Authors of all the ten published scripts will be adequately rewarded to encourage them and others that have similar talents.
• The author of the winning script/story will go home with a cash prize and will play a lead role in the movie and also make a special appearance at the movie premiere ( Film Festival).
Phase Two: “Be A Movie Star Auditioning” Reality TV Show
• The “Be a Movie Star auditioning” is a reality TV based show to select potential actors/actresses that will feature in the movie adopted from the winning story of the scriptwriting contest.
• The auditioning will be supervised by a team of professionals selected from the movie and television industry in Nigeria and the Gambia.
• Participation will be open to everyone (children, teens, youths and adults) and roles to be auditioned for will be generated from the scripts/stories received in the writing contest and categorized accordingly.
• Viewers will reserve the rights to choose their best actors/actresses by voting.
• Successful actors/actresses will be on their road to stardom as they will feature alongside top Nollywood (Nigerian Movie Stars) and international in the movie.
Phase Three: “Making (Shooting) of the Movie”
• The production and shooting of the movie will be done in the Gambia.
• The process of the movie making and behind the scenes activities will form part of a television series which will be on DSTV and syndicated to selected TV stations in Africa.
• Viewers will have the opportunity to follow the procedure of how a movie is produced.
• Movie and entertainment enthusiast will undergo training by during the making of the movie by being attached to the technical production team.
Phase Four: “Fil Festival (Premiere)”
• Theilm Festival will form the culmination of the FAME project and would be a socio-cultural event to celebrate the artistry and heritage of the Gambia.
• With the aim of placing the Gambia in a vantage position in the African movie industry, this film festival will permit movie entries from other countries within the African continent.
• It will be organized along the same concept with the Cannes and Toronto Film Festival, but with a major focus on African Films.
• One of the greatest high-points of the festival will be the premiere of the movie from the winning script of the FAME project and an appearance of all the cast as selected from the “Be a Movie Star auditioning” Reality TV Show.
• The festival will also form a tourism developmental package to open up a panorama and the rich socio-cultural heritage of the Gambia to the world.
BENEFITS OF FAME
• Fame Africa will present an opportunity to develop the Gambian countries Movie, Entertainment industry with an attendant increase in revenue generation for the country.
• The project will also impact positively on the country’s academic sector through a career-inspiring opportunity that will engage the minds of the youth and the general public.
• The project also presents an opportunity to make Gambia the hub of West African movie practice and professionalism.
• It also presents an opportunity for the country to exploit the numerous economic advantages of the entertainment industry.
• The countries media industry will also gain international recognition by leveraging on this project to promote its professionalism.
• The Film Festival will present an opportunity to promote the socio-cultural heritage of the country and expand its tourism potentials.
• The project will create youth development and build capacities for talents that have the potential of bringing worldwide acclaim to his/her country.
Author: by Sherrif Janko
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