Idris Elba plans to move to Africa to boost film industry in Ghana, Tanzania and beyond

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Idris Elba sets his sights on Africa, planning to move there in the next decade to build studios in Ghana and Tanzania and 'bolster the film industry' there.

Idris Elba is no absentee boss. As part of his ongoing effort to develop Africa’s film industry, the Golden Globe-winning actor plans to build film studios in Ghana and Tanzania over the next decade. It’s a task he says he can’t accomplish with a London postcode. “I’m here to bolster the film industry — that is a 10-year process,” Elba told the BBC in an interview published Tuesday. “I won’t be able to do that from overseas. I need to be in-country, on the continent.

” A 2022 UNESCO report said that despite “significant growth in production” — the Nigerian film industry alone produces around 2,500 movies annually, with total revenue estimates in the hundreds of millions of dollars — African film production is hindered by issues such as piracy, insubstantial training opportunities and a lack of official film institutions.

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