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AfroBerlin: Black German Filmmakers Association Discuss Their Creation, Working With Incoming Berlinale Head Tricia Tuttle & Why They Believe The Festival Needed “New Leadership”
The Berlin Film Festival runs until February 25.
A youthful crowd of industry professionals filed into a bustling room at the Gropius Bau Saturday afternoon for the inaugural AfroBerlin symposium here at the Berlin Film Festival. Among the speakers were outgoing Berlinale co-head Mariette Rissenbeek, NEOM’s Wayne Borg, and Yolonda Ncokotwana, Head of Industry Development National Film & Video Foundation South Africa. Following the publication of last year’s letter, the association has been in constant discussion with German film institutions on how to pull the industry forward, board member Benita Sarah Bailey told the panel.
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