StarTimes ON announced its Pan Africa Online Film Festival (PAOFF) in Lagos with setting several awards to encourage African local online film creation.

According to the release by StarTimes ON, PAOFF is a quarterly online film awards competition and is open to all local professional film and music video producers.

StarTimes ON launches a fans voting system for all videos who are qualified for the awards competition, which will include favourite film ranking board, favourite short film ranking board, favourite MV board. All videos will be listed in the three boards basing on their categories and rank according to votes from StarTimes ON users.

No.1 video of each board will win the quarterly Best Film Award, Best Short Film Award and Best MV Award, whose producer will get $1500 as the prize.

“It is an online age and local online video contents will be an important pillar of StarTimes ON’s content strategy,” said Ariel Wang, Operation Director of StarTimes ON.

She added: “That’s why we establish PAOFF awards and we sincerely hope the awards competition will encourage the development of local online video creation and see the rise of African online video industry.”

StarTimes ON is Africa’s NO.1 online video streaming service with having 14 million users in the market. StarTimes ON is dedicated to providing ultimate entertainment and enriched experience for African online users. It provides Live TV, VOD and short videos with covering news, sports, movies, series, music, entertainment, documentary, kids and religion.