The government adopted on Wednesday, in the Council of Ministers, a bill on the organization of cinema, audiovisual and animated images with a view to remedying the shortcomings of the sector by reorganizing and creating better operating conditions throughout the ecosystem of cinema and animated images in Burkina Faso.

According to the Minister in charge of culture, Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo, the objective of this bill is to make cinema a sector that creates wealth and, above all, decent jobs in Burkina Faso and, beyond that, to make cinema (…) an important lever for education and awareness-raising that also carries the values ??of Burkina Faso.

“The adoption of this bill is the result of a certain number of shortcomings noted in the law in force, including the lack of clarification in the administrative organization, the insufficiency of supervision in cinemas and spaces for the distribution of films,” declared the Minister of State Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo at the end of the council.

Minister Ouédraogo also
deplored the lack of regulation of new forms of digital exploitation of films, the failure to take into account the professions of animated images, the inadequacy of measures to protect the cinematographic and audiovisual heritage of Burkina Faso, and the absence of coercive sanctions.

The Minister of State for Culture maintained that the adopted bill includes several innovations, including the transition from a framework law to an organizational law, the consideration of animated images, and the definition of the role of private and public actors.

“The definition of the conditions for exercising professions, branches of the cinema, audiovisual and animated image industry, the establishment of safeguard, protection and conservation measures for cinematographic and audiovisual works, the establishment of specific financing mechanisms for the sector”, are among the major innovations of this bill, he specified.

Source: Burkina Information Agency