Three new initiatives in music, movie and innovation will additional gasoline the expansion of Nigeria's phenomenal inventive industries.
THE United States of America, a significant supporter of Nigerian arts, tradition and leisure, has additional deepened its cultural ties with the nation by launching new initiatives to spice up inventive industries, know-how and innovation.
The music and movie tasks will increase skilled improvement and community constructing for tv writers, producers, artwork administrators, cinematographers, editors and line producers, amongst others.
US Assistant Secretary of Schooling and Cultural Affairs Lee Satterfield, who visited Nigeria from March 17 to 22, introduced the initiatives on the College of Lagos on Wednesday.
Earlier in the present day, on the Onikan Nationwide Museum, the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs signed an MOU to launch the Cultural Property Settlement Implementation Grant Program titled 'Preserving Nigeria's Heritage'.
The $95,000 grant program with the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York and the Nationwide Fee for Museums and Monuments goals to create a digital stock of collections on the Nationwide Museum Lagos.
However Satterfield reaffirmed his appreciation for Nigerian creatives and delivered extra excellent news on the UNILAG occasion with the Vice Chancellor, Professor Folasade Ogunsola.
She defined that for the reason that persons are on the heart of the US' relationship with Nigeria, the U.S. authorities will frequently develop initiatives to spice up them.
“The core of our relationship is our folks. It’s each one in every of you on this room; they’re the greater than 17,000 bachelor's and grasp's college students from Nigeria who studied in the US final 12 months; it’s the artists and athletes – from Afrobeats sensation Davido to WNBA stars Chiney Ogwumike and her sister Nneka – who carry our wealthy cultures collectively and have fun peace via music and sports activities; it’s the entrepreneurs, engineers, programmers and scientists who drive technological innovation,” stated Satterfield.
She additional famous that with the outstanding development of Nollywood and Afrobeats, the world is now being attentive to African tradition, music and tales.
She stated the US acknowledges the big potential of the inventive industries to create financial alternatives on either side of the Atlantic, particularly as American entertainers more and more collaborate with their Nigerian counterparts, as do corporations akin to Netflix, Disney, Paramount, Sony and NBC Common. and YouTube
Most significantly, she defined that the US authorities helps the Nigerian inventive business because it supplies financial alternatives to hundreds of thousands of individuals, from Hollywood to Nollywood.
She launched the brand new initiatives: “The Africa Inventive TV Initiative (ACTV) is a brand new skilled improvement program concentrating on TV writers, producers and below-the-line professionals. ACTV is a partnership with the College of Southern California's Faculty of Cinematic Arts and was created in response to President Biden's 2022 Africa Leaders Summit. It acknowledges the affect and affect of Africa's inventive industries.
“ACTV will deal with skilled improvement and community constructing for tv writers, producers and people in different technical areas akin to artwork path, cinematography, enhancing, line manufacturing and extra. For 2024, the Africa Inventive TV initiative will choose eight TV tasks for a four-week residency in Los Angeles on the College of Southern California. Whereas there, members will work with American professionals to develop abilities and put together for writing, improvement and manufacturing. Individuals will carry works-in-progress to develop throughout the residency, underneath the steerage of American TV writers, producers and business consultants.
Whereas ACTV focuses on motion pictures, the opposite focuses on selling music. In keeping with Satterfield, “The American Music Mentorship Program (AMMP) – a partnership between the U.S. Division of State and the Recording Academy – higher identified to most of us because the Grammys – will carry worldwide mid-career music business professionals to the US to take. States for mentorship and networking alternatives, to domesticate knowledgeable music business ecosystem domestically, assist inventive expertise and strengthen the inventive economic system globally. It is going to leverage the networks and expertise of pros and members of the Recording Academy to offer worldwide members with mentorship alternatives, develop their technical abilities and lay the muse for skilled networking. As a part of the first-ever American Music Mentorship Program, there will probably be 5 members from Nigeria.”
However that wasn't all, as a result of she added the icing on the cake. “This 12 months we’re launching a one-year film-focused Group Faculty Initiative program to maneuver members via the script and into the filmmaking course of. This system options 4 Nigerian movie college students. It is going to assist our broader efforts to construct capability within the inventive economic system, primarily via the lens of technical schooling.
“The movie, tv and music industries proceed to evolve at an unprecedented tempo, fueled by relentless innovation from an more and more interconnected world. US know-how giants akin to Google, Meta and Microsoft are investing closely in Nigeria, supporting the event of native know-how expertise and selling inclusive financial development and improvement. By means of alternatives like TechWomen and TechGirls, we will carry collectively the most effective and brightest from the US and Nigeria to rise to the second and pursue next-generation know-how improvements.”
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