US actor Robert De Niro, attending an African development forum in Gabon, said that stability and adequate funding are prerequisites to the future of cinema on the world’s poorest continent.

“First … people have to know (a government is) going to last, that they can come back,” De Niro told a session of the New York Forum Africa in the Gabonese capital Libreville last week Saturday.

Secondly, “The money has to be there,” the Oscar-winning actor said.

“You have to have enough money to hire the right people to know what to do as far as building studios, technicians, creative people to start coming up with stories,” De Niro said.

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