Vivendi

In the context of its solidarity program, Vivendi wishes to contribute to the transmission of cinema and audiovisual skills in order to enable youthto enter the world of film and related professions. To this end, Create Joy supports three associations related to the image industries in Africa.

• Un film à la mer
  With Un film à la mer, the team of the pan-African culture magazine « Afrik’art » (broadcast via Canal+ Horizons and Planète) transmits the experience they’ve gained in the field to young Africans. Over a period of two weeks, a dozen youth ranging in age from 15 to 20 are given training in audiovisual disciplines (sound and image technologies, editing, and directing). Begun in Mali in 2008, the project will extend to Burkina Faso in 2009.

• The Institut spécialisé des métiers du cinéma in Ouarzazate
  The Create Joy fund also supports the Institut spécialisé des métiers du cinema (specialised cinema professions institute) in Ouarzazate, Morocco by financing missions of the French Association of Volunteers of Progress (AFVP). The missions involve participation in training technicians at the institute who will go on to train young Moroccans in the audiovisual professions. The institute, which currently includes 200 students, is located near a spectacular natural setting that lends itself well to shooting. The youthtrained at the institute will be able to provide audiovisual services that were previously reserved for foreign personnel.

• Cinéma numérique ambulant
  The purpose of the "Cinéma numérique ambulant" association is to spread awareness of African cinema and its richness to Africans themselves by way of open-air film screenings in the villages of Western Africa (Niger, Mali, Benin, and Burkina Faso). During the tours, CNA initiates youth in the villages to audiovisual techniques by giving them an opportunity to make short films that are screened prior to the main attraction. Some 300 young Africans have already experienced this thanks to the CNA. Vivendi is associated with this program via Create Joy by financing the ten short films to be made by the CNA with young Burkinabe starting in April 2009.