Africa Film & TV, the publisher of the moving image in Africa, has been acquired by Southwood Consultants Ltd, publishers of the weekly e-letter Balancing Act’s News Update that covers telecoms, Internet and computing in Africa.
Balancing Act will be publishing a fortnightly e-letter African Broadcast, Film and Convergence. A pilot issue will be published in two weeks time and it will launch in early Spring this year. The Africa Film & TV Yearbook 2007/2008 will be published this autumn. The e-letter will provide news on broadcast and film, distribution, investment, regulation and policy and technology and convergence from all over Africa.
According to Balancing Act CEO’s CEO Russell Southwood:”This is an exciting time for African media. The opening up of broadcast licence opportunities in South Africa looks like being the starting gun for a wave of media liberalisation across the continent. Africans will get more information, a greater diversity of opinions and wider diet of TV and film fiction productions.”
Africa Film & TV was suspended from publication in November 2005, following the closure of its Zimbabwe production offices. Outgoing Africa Film TV publishers are Furco Ltd of the UK. Furco CEO, Russell Honeyman, said that: "The acquisition of Africa Film & TV by Balancing Act is great news for the African broadcast and content creation industries. Balancing Act performs an excellent service in providing unbiased and timely news of ICT developments in Africa. Balancing Act has a track record of providing timely information in a professional way with content that is always relevant for its readers”.
Russell Southwood, CEO, of Balancing Act, said, "We are delighted to have acquired Africa Film & TV. The title has been the journal of record for momentous changes in African image production and broadcast, from the apartheid era, to the launch of multi-channel satellite TV, to the arrival of broadband Internet. A new chapter is now beginning and we look forward to the growth of a strong broadcast and film industry on the continent.”
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