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South African Industry Ponders Its Future as Challenges Mount: ‘We’re Not Cultivating a New Generation’
While the industry has been reshaped since the end of apartheid, many professionals are unsure how to build a sustainable biz for the next generation.
The Durban FilmMart began Friday in South Africa with the spirited, hopeful, often contentious representatives of the host nation weighing in on the highs and lows of its screen industries three decades into democratic rule. Africa’s largest economy has faced a host of challenges in recent years, from persistently high rates of crime and unemployment to the rolling blackouts that have become a daily fact of life for South Africans of every racial and economic background. Dumeko pointed to budget shortfalls at the NFVF — an institution that is vital to both the growth and transformation of the South African biz — as emblematic of larger structural issues holding the screen industries back.
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