ReaGilè (Ree Ah Gee Le) Co-Operative Cinemas is rolling out 1300, sixty seat cinemas in South African townships and rural areas by 2015. We are targeting the 40 million potential audience members in these areas who have had No Access to any cinemas. We need 6 hours of educational & documentary films for the per morning, per day, as well as 8 hours of Feature and short films per day, for the afternoons and evenings. We are offering film copyright holders a fixed exhibition fee of $6 per hour, each time a film is flighted. i.e. $60k if a 1 hour film is flighted once in 1000 cinemas, etc. This translates to $40 million profit per year to be shared by film makers, from 6.643 million hours of film flights. ReaGilè has a One Page, Non Exclusive Exhibition Agreement, which can be terminated at will . Filmmakers can take your films which are gathering dust on a shelf somewhere, and let ReaGilè try to help you get discovered, and make some money at the same time. ReaGilè iHs Pty Ltd is a "Revolutionary Franchise" in which the "Franchisor" derives no income from the screening of the films, and also receives no income from the "Franchisee", as the ReaGilè Project is driven by Advertising, which pays the film fees, pays the Franchisee a monthly income and full support, and has the Primary Goal of Sustainable Job Creation for poor people, including film makers. Each 60 seat Cinema creates 27 sustainable jobs in the target community, provides a 30 seat Internet centre, a Community Policing centre and a Community Aid centre, plus 5 free outdoor exhibition screens facing onto a community park. (ReaGilè does not take money from the poor to give to the rich). ReaGilè further intends to roll the project out in the rest of Africa, where there are 800 million potential audience members with a need for 26 thousand mini cinemas, at a potential Profit of $800 million per year to film makers. I look forward to comments, critics, and any advice from anybody. This has never been done before but looks like it may be one of the answers to the ails of the Film Industry. God Bless you all this Christmas, and lets make 2014 a successful year for all. John Founder (and builder, welder, tea maker, and general factotum)
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Wow. Fantastic, John. Quite the initiative. Wishing you nothing but the best in 14!
Thanks for your comment. I just not wait for the day we have a few thousand more cinemas showing good movies and helping to rescue poor people and the indie film industry.
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Vey cool. Let me know if I can help in 2014 . Milt www.firstritesfilms.com
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Thanks so much to you all. We really believe that we can make a difference to people's lives. Once the cinema are all up and running we hope to double the payment to the film makers and additionally to fund deserving film makers to create films specifically for us. If you would like more detailed info please have a look at ReaGileCinema on Facebook or send me your mail addresses. The most important Birthday celebration is at hand and we are looking forward to it indeed. 2014 is going to be Awesome ! Watch this space ! And Bless you all. John