AFM Spotlight: MNet

SANTA MONICA: MNet is very keen to showcase its African movies, which are available for license all over the globe, at the AFM next week.

“MNet’s African films appeal to a far wider audience than just the local demographic, which has been proven by the massive increase in content requests we are receiving daily,” says Mandy Roger, the company’s head of sales, acquisitions and business development.

Projek Mandela is a documentary that plays out like a political thriller. “The slow-brewing Projek Mandela comes to fruition on February 11, 1990, when Mandela walks through the gates of Victor Verster to freedom and into history,” notes Roger. Heartlines is a film about “second chances, the power to make different decisions and the transforming effect of unconditional love,” she says. Directed by Revel Fox, Long Street is based on the life of Fox’s daughter, a recovering drug addict. Roger describes Long Street as “a poetic, powerful, music-driven film about contemporary middle-class ennui in urban South Africa.”

Visit MNet’s WorldScreenings.com Screening Room for more on its AFM slate.