Ouagadougou: The Cinema Vision Association-Burkina Faso (ACV-BF), in collaboration with the Women ICT Association, organized a two-day training workshop this Friday for 20 young women to enable them to use smartphones to produce video content useful for raising awareness and promoting their activities.

According to Burkina Information Agency, the workshop, themed "Women creators of digital content," is designed to strengthen the digital skills of young girls, enabling them to produce video content with their smartphones for awareness, communication, or promotional purposes. The representative of the president of the cinema vision Burkina Faso association, Issa Bebane, emphasized that the training aims to equip participants with the ability to create and edit videos, use text animations and visual effects, and produce short videos tailored for social media platforms.

Mr. Bebane outlined that the workshop will feature both theoretical and practical sessions focusing on short video creation, digital storytelling, and editing. Participants will be taught how to transform their smartphones into professional studios and build a loyal audience.

He expressed hope that by the end of the training, the young women would be capable of producing films that raise awareness, videos that inspire generations, and digital content that redefines independent cinema. Mr. Bebane also highlighted the gender disparity in digital content production, noting that while women make up over half of the global population, they currently produce only 30% of visible digital content. He views this workshop as a crucial step towards reversing this trend.