KUMBA HOSTS MEETING ON MOVIE DISTRIBUTION.

A meeting to deliberate on movie distribution strategies took place in kumba yesterday June 18,2022.

Initiated and chaired by one of Cameron's finest movie directors Musing Derrick, the meeting was attended by Kumba based film makers.

The distribution of movies in Cameroon has remained the greatest challenge in the sector, as such movie producers and actors gathered with the intention of figuring out how movie makers can make money from film.

Musing Derrick urged film makers to think universal when making movies and insisted that movie making does not end in Kumba.

At the end of the meeting, film makers were optimistic about the future of the Cameroon film industry

By Christy Ijang

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