FOCUS BD & Webtoon - Création Africa

Annecy
Bobigny
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Bordeaux
Avignon
Brive
- Cannes
- Cayenne
- Chartres
- Clermont-Ferrand
- Dijon
- Famars
- Grasse
- Grenoble
- Laon
- Le Touquet
- Lille
- Lyon
- Marseille
- Metz
- Montpellier
- Nantes
- Nice
- Paris
- Reims
- Rouen
- Saint-Malo
- Strasbourg
- Toulouse
- Tours
- Vichy
- Wasselonne

From 21 October 2024 to 27 October 2024

As part of Création Africa, the Institut français is setting up a FOCUS dedicated to comics and webtoon, aimed at supporting the mobility of players in the African book industry on the French market. This mobility scheme will take place between Angoulême, Paris and Saint-Malo from October 21 to 27, 2024, in partnership with the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image, the Centre national du livre, and the Quai des Bulles festival.

This FOCUS BD & webtoon brings together seventeen professionals from the African continent (authors, illustrators, publishers, cultural entrepreneurs and program managers in these sectors) for a series of professional meetings, conferences, studio visits and immersion in a comics festival between Angoulême, Paris and Saint-Malo. The aim of this mobility scheme is to showcase the dynamism of CCIs in Africa, strengthen cultural and economic exchanges between African professionals in these sectors and their French counterparts, and bring concrete benefits in terms of networking and cooperation opportunities.

FOCUS BD & webtoon guests

Sabri Benbassite, Nebul’arts (Algeria)
Salim Brahimi, Z-link éditions, Festival international de BD d’Alger (Algeria)
Constantin Adadja, AS-Bénin/Vootoon Festival (Benin)
Marvin Suyru Njoka, Zebra Comics (Cameroon)
Yannick Deubou Sikoue, Waanda Stoudio (Cameroon)
Amandine Stéphanie Atangana, Kuza SARL (Cameroon)
Didier Kassai, auteur (Central African Republic)
Chyldran Pascal Ndong Evouna, Yaïss Prod/FGIBD (Gabon)
Akosua Hanson, Moongirls (Ghana)
Marcelline Akinyi, Reveal Comic (Kenya)
Elizabeth Kilili, Creatives Garage (Kenya)
Somto Ajuluchukwu, Vortex Comics (Nigeria)
Rhys-Jonarol Massengo, Kukia (Republic of Congo)
Dominique Uwase Alonga, Imagine We Rwanda (Rwanda)
Seydina Issa Sow, SIS Illustrations (Senegal)
Nada Dagdoug, Studio Grif Graf (Tunisia)
Bill Masuku, auteur (Zimbabwe)

Focus BD & Webtoon CRÉATION AFRICA - livret des participants pdf - 5.37 MB

Programme

Monday, October 21 , 2024

Program opening at the Institut français in Paris

Tuesday, October 22 and Wednesday, October 23 , 2024: Angoulême

Participation in the Cité de la bande dessinée et de l'image's Rencontres internationales de la bande dessinée: “Francophonie: under the sign of the comic strip!
Visits to webtoon and animation studios and schools.

Thursday, October 24 , 2024: Paris

Visits to the exhibitions “La Bande Dessinée 1964-2024” and “Corto Maltese, une vie romanesque” at the Centre Pompidou.
Round tables and meetings on the structuring and development of webtoon markets in France and around the world. In partnership with the Centre national du livre (CNL), at the Institut français.

Friday, October 25-Sunday, October 27 , 2024: Saint-Malo

Participation in the Quai des Bulles festival's roundtables and professional day, and in the festival's program of meetings, exhibitions and performances.

To relive the highlights of this FOCUS in images, click here.