Scouting the crème de la crème in Madagascar needs focus, above an eye for a talent DNA
In a country with no film school, there can be more dreamers than trained and approved film professsionals.
Many amateur videographers promote themselves as production agency and even offer services on Facebook with no referrence nor consistent work standards.
Filmmakers associations died upon poor structure style and didn't emerge enough to grow as an union or a guild.
FABULOUS ANONYMOUS acts a compass to guide companies from creative industries to source reliable professionals on the red island... this article won't list the methods, the tricks, the psychology, of scouting talents in this context, as this ability itself is a talent and the result of long years observations towards a fact : the hidden talents are are made of humility, so they ignore the gifts they were born with.
We choose precisely the example of filmmaking and film production in an extended illustration of the reliability issue in Madagascar. Not only because being a director or an actress are often perceived as dream jobs (worldwide), but also because this fantasm has a specific impact in parts of the world where this industry is not settled, and enhances the total fantasy of easy money, work and fame : there's no more fake trinity than this one.
Realistic talents, aware of their need to learn and involved in a succesful self-educated approach to filmmaking are often the best talents scouted and found by FABULOUS ANONYMOUS.
Filmmakers who screened a movie at the local cinema prove their ability to get a distribution deal and to have a trustworthy knowledge of how film business works. Filmmakers who have a showreel (it's not necessary a common use in Madagascar though it's an international standard to appreciate a director's CV) shows their willing to introduce their savoir-faire, and their wish to work with international producers.
We need to express in full transparency that the way we scout talents can't be throught the identification of high-potentials freshly graduated. Our methods comes from the cultural acceptation of a missing board of relevant education institutions, accurate working style which needs strong mentoring...
In such places, an agency such as FABULOUS ANONYMOUS remains vital. Not only for the client needs, but also to feed the generation of brave existing professionals deserving a chance to show their work and apply their hard-won skills at the service of international productions.
