Shiloh Arts Training Institute Director Evans Chisenga has appealed to broadcasting stations in the country to start accepting local movies as the country migrates from analogue transmission to digital.
Zambia has switched from analogue to digital transmission only along the line of rail from Livingstone to Chililabombwe under phase one of the digital migration process.
Mr. Chisenga noted that television broadcasting stations have in the recent past expressed worry about accessing local content following the digital migration which requires more local content.
He said production houses have worked so hard in the recent past to produce high quality films that have appealing storylines worth airing on TV.
Mr Chisenga urged the National broadcaster to consider buying local content from local producers as a way of empowering local production houses to produce more movies and other programmes.
He said his training institute in conjunction with the National Arts Council and the National Association of Media Arts (NAMA) has trained a huge number of producers and actors to produce movies and other programmes that can be used by various TV stations.
He noted that in view of the digital migration, various TV channels need to acquire local content that can air on their channels as opposed to repeating the same old movies and programmes.
Mr. Chisenga has since called on the corporate world to invest in the film industry to ensure that more quality local content is produced for both the local and the international markets.
He disclosed that the National Arts Council, NAMA and Shiloh Arts Institute are currently training young people in film production.Mr. Chisenga said this in an Interview with ZANIS in Lusaka today.
It is about time. Time we started producing our own stuff unlike depending too much on Nigerian and Mexican films.
ba jenalist your mouth
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