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Locarno Opens Doors to Sub-Saharan Africa Again | Variety

The Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors co-production mart will return to focussing on French-speaking Sub-SaharanAfrica in 2014, completing the territories in the area which it did not cover when it did so in 2012.  Open Doors this year is open to submissions from: Angola, Botswana, Cape Verde, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Southern Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.  Purpose of the mart/workshop, which will run August 9-12 next year, is to help selected projects connect with co-production partners, especially European producers.  Open Doors also assigns a prize worth Euros 40,000 ($54,000), and other smaller cash nods offered by Gaul’s CNC and broadcaster ARTE.