Meet the Nomadic Film Space! The new “traveling market platform” designed to “bridge African creative producers with institutional capital” has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival ‘s Marché du Film .

It is designed to “fill a critical gap in the international film industry,” moving “beyond conventional market encounters to create a structured environment where African cinema’s most entrepreneurial producers engage with investors who understand the sector on its own terms, from development and production through to distribution, curation, and audience building,” its creators said.

Curated and operated by Yetu (Un)limited in partnership with Ctrl + Alt + Shift, Sanusi Development Studio and Kiasi, the platform arrived at Cannes with a series of curated events, such as Friday morning’s “The African & Diasporic Audience Development Think Tank.”

Sponsors and partners of the Nomadic Film Space include Afreximbank, Film Fund Luxembourg, SACD (France, Belgium & Canada), Institut Français, SODEC, Téléfilm…