THE SPRINGBOARD PROJECT CONCEPT

SPRINGBOARD Project is a talent Sourcing, Capacity building and sensitization Program for emerging entertainers that aims at engaging young people into the Cameroon entertainment Industry through Filmmaking, Modelling/Fashion design and music workshops, to develop educative multi-media content on various thematic areas such as environment, civic participation, gender mainstream and sustainable development, for public education and sensitization via online, broadcasting media and open air public sensitization programs.

The entertainment industry stands the chance of addressing this problem but also suffers from limited skills, lack of equipment, human resources, capacity and opportunities to meet up with the demands of the entertainment market in Cameroon as a whole.

NA LEVEL EMPIRE through the SPRINGBOARD PROJECT introduces a far-reaching approach that engages and develop the capacities of these youths in Fashion, Film and modelling to address our various socio economic/cultural, environmental and developmental problems with rich and engaging multimedia content for the entertainment industry in Cameroon.

AIMS

To source and oriented talented youths to develop careers for entertainment industry
To train youths on modelling, filmmaking and music via talent development workshops
To create opportunities for youths to showcase their talents and creativities
Develop and integrate talented youths in to the entertainment industry
Produce entertainment content for the mainstream media
Organize community mobilization activities via modelling runway, Film shows and musical performances

GOAL

The goal of this project is to nurture youths, develop compelling careers in film making modelling and music to create Multi-media contents and in partnership with the mainstream media and stakeholders create awareness and educate communities on key issues affecting the society such as environment, civic education, Gender mainstream in development

Project objectives

Organize talent sourcing events via auditioning in major cities to select Cameroon to select young aspiring entertainers for the project
Organize 5 day each workshop in major cities each to train selected participants on script writing, screenplay, editing, modeling and music
Produce entertainment content for media sensitization and our nationwide mobilization campaign which constitute: short film, series addressing various themes such as environment, civic engagement, gender mainstream, peace and community engagement, 5 musical audio and video and a TV talk show with trained models
Springboard conferences for peace open air mobilization with Peace musical concert, Miss Peace Runway and Film projection with trained entertainment peer educators.

The project is conceived to be implemented in various towns and cities in Cameroon where talents are fished and nurtured from crash into the entertainment industry and so far we have recorded success in the following cities: