Economic Evaluation of Film Industry in the case of Ethiopia

Creative industries provide significant contributions to sustain economic development in both developed and developing countries. The film industry is one of the sub-sectors of the creative industries. Ethiopia is one of the first countries in the continent to experience film as a technology and an art form since its invention hundred years before. Since then the country has gone through different development stages that range from analogue to celluloid to digital.This book examines the Ethiopian film industry, beginning with the period of increased production following the collapse of the country's communist Derg regime in 1991. Focusing on the last three decades, the economic aspects of the movie industry in Ethiopia was analyzed in my work. It is aimed to examine the economic contribution of the film industry in Ethiopia and its potential for the future development of Ethiopia as well as to identify the key challenges that face the film industry not to play a significant role in the development of the Ethiopian economy, along with a way forward.

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Yirgashewa Teshome; ist ein äthiopischer Filmemacher und Gründungsdirektor des Ethiopian International Film Festival (ETHIOFFEST). Yirgashewa ist ein äthiopischer Pionier bei der Schaffung und Entwicklung internationaler Partnerschaften mit verschiedenen Filmfestivals in der ganzen Welt. ETHIOFFEST ist inzwischen zu einem festen Bestandteil der Kulturlandschaft von Addis Abeba geworden.