Netflix has said it wants to bring South African movies and shows to a global audience through its platform.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are great stories to be told here. It\u2019s just the question of finding the right story,\u201d said Yann Lafargue, head of Netflix corporate communications for EMEA.<\/p>\n
He said Netflix is not looking for content that will only appeal to a local audience. As with shows like Narcos, they want local stories that may travel globally.<\/p>\n
One of the ways Netflix finds such content is through its content acquisition team, which scouts for places where there are good storytellers.<\/p>\n
People will also come with near-finished films or episodes for shows, while others will only have a script to pitch \u2013 like the Duffer brothers did with Stranger Things.<\/p>\n
Regardless of which category creators fall into, Netflix said it is best to get an agent to promote your idea.<\/p>\n
It may also happen that a film or series has attracted the attention of TV networks, in which case there will be a bidding war \u2013 where the highest bidder usually wins.<\/p>\n
Lafargue said he could not promise Netflix will pick up South African content, but now that they are\u00a0officially in South Africa<\/strong><\/a>, he is sure they will receive pitches from local creators.<\/p>\n Netflix is\u00a0spending billions<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of dollars on original content, which it said drives subscriber growth and keeps users on the platform.<\/p>\n Lafargue said they also expect to charge South African subscribers in rand soon \u2013 within the coming weeks or months.<\/p>\n Netflix has not announced the rand prices.<\/p>\n Netflix has said it wants to bring South African movies and shows to a global audience through its platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":88021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25243,25245,10751],"class_list":["post-121567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-local-shows","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0The FPB\u2019s R1-million licence fee for Netflix is a terrible idea<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"