The Mossuril Film Festival, dubbed as the festival ‘at the end of the road,’ will be one of the first sustained film events ever held in northern Mozambique, bringing cinema on the big screen to two rural districts on the coast.
The Mossuril Film Festival is turning to the Internet to raise funds for the first edition of the festival, which is set to grace the historic northern Mozambican coastal districts of Mossuril and Mozambique Island in August 2014.
“The campaign ensures we’ll be able to employ extra marketing staff part-time and cover the final logistics costs,” says festival director and founder Alex Macbeth, a British journalist, who is starting the festival together with an eclectic mix of domestic and international partners, including the Mozambican film institute INAC, Festival do Rio and Edinburgh Napier University.
The campaign, which is seeking to raise €1,200, can be found on international crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. The festival team are offering a range of perks in return for donations, including hand-drawn maps of the region, limited edition programmes and posters.
The Mossuril Film Festival will use four venues – including the World Heritage and world famous Old Fort on Mozambique Island, one of the oldest European buildings in the Southern Hemisphere - as well as two upgraded rural venues in Mossuril, 8 kilometres across the bay from Mozambique’s former capital. More than ten films from Brazil, Mozambique and the UK will be screened for free, a total of thirty two screenings over four days.
“We hope the festival will become a platform for sustainable tourism and media growth in the area,” says festival co-founder, novelist and Teran Foundation director Lisa St Aubin de Teran.
The Mossuril Film Festival is presented by Festival do Rio, INAC; Breaking the Ice, Teran Foundation, British Council, Swiss Development Cooperation, Kugoma and Embassy of Ireland.
The Mossuril Film Festival is turning to the Internet to raise funds for the first edition of the festival, which is set to grace the historic northern Mozambican coastal districts of Mossuril and Mozambique Island in August 2014.
“The campaign ensures we’ll be able to employ extra marketing staff part-time and cover the final logistics costs,” says festival director and founder Alex Macbeth, a British journalist, who is starting the festival together with an eclectic mix of domestic and international partners, including the Mozambican film institute INAC, Festival do Rio and Edinburgh Napier University.
The campaign, which is seeking to raise €1,200, can be found on international crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. The festival team are offering a range of perks in return for donations, including hand-drawn maps of the region, limited edition programmes and posters.
The Mossuril Film Festival will use four venues – including the World Heritage and world famous Old Fort on Mozambique Island, one of the oldest European buildings in the Southern Hemisphere - as well as two upgraded rural venues in Mossuril, 8 kilometres across the bay from Mozambique’s former capital. More than ten films from Brazil, Mozambique and the UK will be screened for free, a total of thirty two screenings over four days.
“We hope the festival will become a platform for sustainable tourism and media growth in the area,” says festival co-founder, novelist and Teran Foundation director Lisa St Aubin de Teran.
The Mossuril Film Festival is presented by Festival do Rio, INAC; Breaking the Ice, Teran Foundation, British Council, Swiss Development Cooperation, Kugoma and Embassy of Ireland.
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