unWrap.onlineThe team behind award-winning movie ‘Kapana’, which has just won the award for the best narrative feature at the DC Black Film Festival in the United States, needs funding to attend sought-after film festivals in Accra in Ghana and Italy.
The DC Black Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting quality film, web series and television content by and about people of African descent, as well as to providing support to emerging artists in the industry.
‘Kapana’, produced by Ombetja Yehinga Organisation Trust, is an LGBTQ+-themed film that follows a love story between an insurance broker and a kapana vendor, and aims to raise awareness on social issues like HIV-AIDS.
The film also recently won the Kim Renders Memorial Award for outstanding performance in Canada, and was a runner-up for the best narrative award at the Pride Film Festival in Australia.
It was also a runner-up in the Out on Film USA Awards.
‘Kapana’ actor Adriano Visagie says he did not expect this kind of acclaim.
“We are selected for a festival in Accra, in Ghana, and would really love to attend the festivals that allow attendance, however, funding remains a challenge. Hence we are calling on corporates for assistance to be able to represent Namibian film at these festivals – also in Italy in October.
“Now, more than ever, ‘Kapana’, being a leading Namibian film seen at global film festivals and still continuing to do its global tour, is honestly heart-warming,” he says.
It is also through this film that Visagie has scooped his second international award, and he says he hopes the film would soon make it onto the popular streaming platform Netflix.
“Yes, we want to see ‘Kapana’ on Netflix and more streaming sites, but this requires collective funding, seeing that we don’t have a distributor. The honour is thus carried by Philippe [Talavera] and the team to share ‘Kapana’ at festivals.
“I appreciate the support and recognition received, and this win isn’t just a win, it’s a win that amplifies the importance of ‘Kapana’. It gives me hope. I hope it encourages each and every actor who aspires to see their faces on the screen one day that it’s possible, and that your circumstances do not have to define you,” he says.
Visagie is urging corporates to come on board to help with funding to attend festivals.
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