MEDIA NAVIGATION SIGNS MOU AND PARTNERSHIP WITH COLLYWOOD TV FOR THE AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN CINEMA INITIATIVE

Media Navigation, officially confirms of their working relationship with Collywood TV in Dominica (Caribbean Island). The essence of their collaborative efforts and partnership is to break the frontiers of diasporic film culture, to encourage local film development and skill empowerment under affordable facilities and infrastructure.

The goal is to be able to grow and access African-Caribbean cinematic platform and use it as tools to develop local film industry and to also create an enabling environment for talented and independent filmmakers both in Africa and in the Caribbean island.

This partnership between media navigation and Collywood TV is sure to help create a unique process for film distribution and production and as well as to encourage positive film culture between the two black continent. The prospect is also base on creating extensive markets for diaspora filmmakers and to draw global attention to the need to bridge the cinema relationship between African and the Caribbean.

Media Navigation and Collywood TV signed the partnership and TV/ film content agreement and MoU under a collective initiative called African Caribbean Cinema Initiative. The initiative will see selected low budget African films touring Caribbean cinemas for promotion; premiere and distribution and Caribbean films and TV content will enjoy the same service in Africa.

Media Navigation is a TV/film production and TV content agency base in South Africa. Over the years the company established itself as a credible agent that represent the interest of independent African filmmakers in TV content market. They have helped individual producers pitch and sell their programmes to broadcasters ranging from talk show, drama series, feature films and many more. According to the Dan Akinlolu CEO/Founder, the present key programme is to expand African content services to the blacks in the diaspora and create content market through his initiative African Caribbean Cinema Initiative. The first materials to be accepted into the programme is “The Tenant” produced by the CEO of Collywood TV

CEO and Founder of Collywood TV in Dominica, Caribbean Island, Junior Hart has produced and he is releasing “The Tenant” the first soap opera to ever come out from the Caribbean Island. According to Junior Hart, “The Tenant” is supposedly the first of its kind in the entire Caribbean Island that include Jamaica, West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago and it is aimed at developing local film production in the Caribbean Island as the project is meant to open bigger doors for local film development. The production, which is currently on the internet TV as pay per view on Collywood TV, will be distributed in Africa by Media Navigation under the platform of African Caribbean Cinema Initiative. According to Dan Akinlolu, CEO / Founder of Media Navigation, “The Tenant” is a good TV content that places Caribbean Island on a global cinema platform especially in the trend of developing low budget production through home videos and local story telling.

It is an extension of African stories and Africans love to see television content that bridges the gap between them and blacks in the diasporas.