a new start up company that will launch later this year called, Afrostream TV. Afrostream TV is a SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) distribution company that intends to become the," Netflix of streaming Black content around the world," in the words of the company's CEO Tonje Bakang in a recent interview with this writer.

Although the idea of streaming Black content specifically to Black audiences is not new and without competition what makes the intention of Afrostream TV unique is that Black content will not be excluded from the existing international audiences to which such content would appeal. For example, Bakang explains that there is an estimated population of 15 million people of Sub-Saharan African descent in Europe alone (France, Belgium, Spain and the U.K.) as well as a huge market within several countries within the continent of Africa. Yet these audiences are underserved by the American Entertainment Complex which has for decades intentionally denied Black American filmmakers legitimate profit making access to these international audiences under the lie that Black films won't sell well overseas. Bakang was adamant during our interview that Afrostream TV is not being created to distribute domestic Black content to its domestic Black audience, but instead their mission is to deliver domestic Black content to its existing but underserved international foreign audience.

In other words, Black films from the United States will be streamed to subscribers in Europe and Africa as Black films from Europe and Africa will be streamed to subscribers in the United States.

Through Afrostream TV African-American filmmakers who have been deliberately segregated from international markets will soon be able to license SVOD rights of their films to Afrostream TV for 24 months and have their works subtitled in various languages and seen in France, French Overseas Territories, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, U.K., and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Black audiences across the globe will be able to see and enjoy the work of Black American filmmakers without having to resort to bootlegging this content.

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