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Below is a continuously updated list of African film and television-related subjects that don’t have a Wikipedia page. Here editors can explore topics of interest to create an article. People can also add topics that they think require a Wikipedia entry. For those interested in an entry being created but are hindered from starting an article themselves because of a potential conflict of interest, this list is a good place to suggest the entry.

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Algeria

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Amin Bouhafa, Algerian Composer
  • Amin Bouhafa, Algerian composer whose credits include Timbuktu, for which he won a César, Tug of War, (Tanzania's 2023 submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film) and Under the Fig Trees (Tunisia's 2023 submission for Best International Feature). Bouafa has an entry on the French Wikipedia edition.

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  • Rachid Hami is a French-Algerian director known for Choisir d'aimer (2008), La Melodie (2017) and For My Country (2022) which stars Karim Leklou and Lubna Azabal. For my Country premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival. Hami has an entry on the French Wikipedia.

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  • Our Brothers is a 2022 Algerian film directed by Rachid Bouchareb and Algeria's submission for the 2023 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

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  • Association of Algerian Producers of Cinema (APAC)

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Angola

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  • Autumn Beat is an Amazon Prime movie by Italian-Angolan writer-director Antonio Dikele Distefano set to drop on November 10, 2022. It's a coming-of-age drama about two brothers who grew up in Milan and dream to break into the rap music world. Distefano is the creator of the 2021 Netflix original series “Zero” that marked Italy’s first show centered around the present-day lives of black Italian youth.

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Benin

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Botswana

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Burkina Faso

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  • Alex Moussa Sawadogo is a Burkinabe specializing in the programming of African films and in the creation and management of cultural projects. He has been the director of Fespaco since 2020.

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  • Twaaga is a 2013 Burkina Faso film directed by Cedric Ido screened at the 2014 Galway African Film Festival.

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  • Imagine Institute is a training institute for filmmakers created by Burkinabé Director Gaston Kabore in 2003.
  • Ouaga Film Lab a film development and co-production laboratory established in 2016 by Alex Moussa Sawadogo, the current director of Fespaco.

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Burundi

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Cabo Verde

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Cameroon

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Yann Gael, French-Cameroonian Actor

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  • Ellie Foumbi is a Cameroonian-American director, writer, and actor. Her 2022 directorial debut “Our Father, Our Devil” (“Mon père, le diable”), follows an African refugee living in the south of France who is suddenly reunited with the warlord-turned-priest who murdered her family. The thriller premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
  • Eystein Young Dingha is the Cameroonian director of The Planter's Plantation, a 2022 musical drama and Cameroon's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2023 Academy Awards.

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  • Higher Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Professionals of Central Africa (ISCAC) and led by Bassek Ba Kobhio.

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  • Board of the Cameroon Film Industry

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Central African Republic

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Chad

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Comoros

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Congo Brazzaville

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Cote d’Ivoire

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  • Fonds de Soutien à l’Industrie Cinématographique, the film industry support fund of Côte d'Ivoire administered by the country's Ministry Economy and Finance, National Film Office and the Ministry of Culture.

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Democratic Republic of Congo

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  • Rafiki Fariala is a Congolese-born director and musician whose freshman feature, the documentary We, Students! was the first feature from the Central African Republic to be screened at the Berlin International Film Festival. His follow up film, Congo Boy, is a drama inspired by his own story as a refugee in CAR. Drawing upon his story, “Congo Boy” tells the story of a teenage refugee from the Congo with musical ambitions, who is made responsible for his younger siblings in their new CAR home. Establishing himself first as a musician, Fariala’s documentary “We, Students!” was the first film from CAR to go to the Berlinale and its Panorama sidebar, screening this year

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Djibouti

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Egypt

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  • Marianne Khoury is an Egyptian producer, director and writer, and managing partner in the Cairo-based Misr International Films which her uncle, the famous director Youssef Chahine founded. She also launched Zawya, Egypt’s first art house cinema circuit.

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  • Gawwezni is a 2022 Egyptian comedy starring U.K.-Egyptian star Amir El-Masry who plays a man who falls madly in love but when a spell is cast on him cannot act on his feelings, leading to a series of comic situations. Released in cinemas in Egypt in early November 2022.
  • Kira and El Gin is a 2022 Egyptian action drama taking place during the 1919 Egyptian revolution and with the highest budget to date of any Egyptian film.

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  • Newton’s Cradle (2021 TV series) is a 2021 Netflix Egyptian TV drama series written and directed by Tamer Mohsen and starring Mona Zaki. It was one of the most watched Ramdan television shows in 2021.

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Equatorial Guinea

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Eritrea

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Eswatini

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Ethiopia

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Gabon

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Gambia

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Ghana

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Mawuko Kuadzi, Casting Director for films such as Beasts of No Nation,'Black Earth Rising', Azali. The first West African member of the Casting Society of America (CSA), and first African to win the CSA's Artios Award for Best Commercial Casting.

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  • Film Directors Guild of Ghana (FDGG) is an association that represents the interest of film directors, television directors, television commercials directors, music video directors and all professions within the directorial department of motion picture or audiovisual works in Ghana.

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  • National Film Authority (Ghana)

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Guinea

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Guinea-Bissau

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Kenya

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  • Andrew Kaggia is a Kenyan animator and the director of TeraStorm, a computer-animated science fiction film (2022) that was selected as Kenya's entry for Best International Film for the 95th Academy Awards, making it the first African animated film to be selected to compete for this award. It is also the first original African-scripted animated feature with African characters and context to be nominated for an Oscar.

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  • Fluorescent Sin, is a 2011 Kenyan short by director Amirah Tajdin. The Kenyan short movie screened at the 2013 Galway African Film Festival and 2019 Africa in Motion Film Festival.
  • Mvera, is a 2023 Kenyan feature film by Daudi Anguka. It was Kenya's official submission for the Oscars and premiered on Netflix in July 2024.

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  • Africa Digital Media Institute (ADMI) based in Nairobi, Kenya is a creative media and technology training institution, for film creatives. In 2022 it partnered with Netflix to offer the Netflix Creative Equity Scholarships.
  • Docubox a Kenya-based East African Documentary Fund that trains, mentors, and funds independent filmmakers in East Africa.

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Lesotho

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Liberia

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Libya

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Madagascar

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Malawi

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Mali

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Mauritania

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Mauritius

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  • Mauritius Film development Corporation

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Morocco

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  • Fyzal Boulifa is a British-Moroccan filmmaker. He won a Critics’ Circle Film Award in 2021 for his directorial work on his first feature film, Lynn + Lucy. His follow up 2022 film set in Morocco, The Damned Don’t Cry, premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
  • Al Hadi Ulad-Mohand is the Moroccan Director of Life Suits Me Well, a 2021 drama. As of October 2022, the film has won 8 awards, including three awards at the 2022 Casablanca Arab Film Festival and El Gouna Film Festival’s CineGouna Platform Grand Prize and Best Film in post-production.

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  • Khadija Alami is a Morocaan producer and founder of Oasis Studios in Ouarzazate, Morocco. She was the first Moroccan woman to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2017.
  • Amine Benjelloun, is a Moroccan Producer whose credits include Casablanca Beats and The Blue Caftan, Morocco’s submission to the 2023 Oscars.

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  • Festival of African Cinema of Khouribga (FICAK)
  • Meknes International Animated Film Festival, animation centered film festival held in Morocco.
  • Casablanca Arab Film Festival

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  • Morocco’s cinema center (CCM) (see entry on French Wikipedia)
  • Ouarzazate Film Commission
  • Marrakech film Commission

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Mozambique

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  • Mayowa Labiran, is a Nigerian Art Director & Production Designer whose credits include Finding Hubby.

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Martini Akande is a Nigerian Film Editor of 11 feature films including Gangs of Lagos (2023), Brotherhood (2022), and Glamour Girls (2022). Nominated in the Best Picture Editor category for Brotherhood at the 9th edition of Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards (AMVCA).

Afolabi Olalekan is a Nigerian film editor and director. He was editor of A Ghetto Love Story (2024), a commercial and critical success. He was also the editor of Freedom Way, his directorial debut which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2024.

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  • Moses Babatope is a Nigerian entertainment executive. He is the co-founder and Managing Director at FilmOne Entertainment, a film production and distribution company, and Group Deputy Managing Director of Filmhouse Group, the largest cinema chain in anglophone West Africa and one of the biggest in Africa.
  • Kene Mkparua is Group President and CEO of KOMWORLD a Nigerian & UK entertainment company that owns KOMWORLD Cinema and StudioKOM Production & Distribution.
  • Tambay Amadi Obenson is a Nigerian-born Los Angeles-based film critic, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. He founded Shadow and Act, a website dedicated to covering Black talent and entertainment across the television and film industries (acquired by Blavity) and in September 2022 launched a fundraising campaign for Aroko, an African cinema-focused online platform.

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  • Ben Murray-Bruce Studios and Film Academy (BMB Studios and Film Academy) is a yet-to-be constructed educational and film studio complex in Eko Atlantic City Nigeria. It will be West Africa's largest studio. The project is a partnership between African Export-Import Bank and Ben Murray-Bruce's Silverbird Group signed on the side-lines of the Africa Investment Forum in November 2022.

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  • Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria
  • Creative Designers Guild of Nigeria (CDGN)
  • Screenwriters Guild of Nigeria
  • Edo Artistes Association of Nigeria (EAAN)
  • The Nigerian Oscar Selection Committee (NOSC)

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  • Lagos Film Fund (Nigeria) A fund that disburses loans to filmmakers and distributors over the 18 and who reside in Lagos State.
  • National Film & Video Censors Board (Nigeria)

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  • Nigerian animation

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Sao Tome and Principe

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Senegal

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  • Pamela Diop is a Senegalese Producer with credits that include the Senegalese films Saloum (2021) and Zero (2022) both directed by Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot.

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  • Mistress of a Married Man is a Senegalese Television series (2019-present) by screenwriter Kalista Sy set in Dakar that caused a sensation and was controversial upon its release. The show focused on the lives of everyday women and storylines around sex, infidelity, domestic abuse, and polygamy, which are not usually covered in Senegalese media.
  • Sakho & Mangane is a Senegalese Television series created by Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot entirely filmed in Dakar for Canal+ Afrique, with actors Yann Gael et Issaka Sawadogo.
  • Banlieue Films Festival (BFF)
  • Itinerant School Film Festival (FIFE)
  • Festival Films Femmes Afrique established in 2003 is the first Senegalese festival singularly dedicated to women.

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  • Marodi TV Sénégal

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Seychelles

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  • Ntobeko Sishi, South African actor who starred in South African television drama series Gomora and got nominated for the Best Male Actor at the 1st KZN Entertainment Awards.
  • Anette Engelbrecht is a South African actress. She is best known for her character Maggie van Tonder in the SAUC comedy Orkney Snork Nie and as Meraai in the TV series, Mattewis en Meraai.
  • Angelique Pretorius is a South African actress. Pretorius obtained her drama degree at the University of Cape Town . She played TV roles in Egoli (M-Net), Kruispad (kykNET), Villa Rosa (Kyknet), Snitch 2 (SAUK 3), House of Love (SAUK 2) and Madam & Eve (e-tv). She can also be seen in films such as Stoute Boudjies and Silence.
  • Thando Dlomom, South African theater actress who had her breakout film debut in the Hollywood hit The Woman King

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  • Nkateko Mabaso is a South African entertainment executive. He is currently Director of Licensing & Co-productions for Netflix Africa. His previous role was as Group Executive Programming for Multichoice.
  • Nomsa Philiso is a South African entertainment executive, currently the CEO of General Entertainment at South African entertainment company Multichoice Group.
  • Tendeka Matatu is an entertainment executive who has been serving as Netflix’s Director of Local Language Films for Africa since 2021, following a career as a director and producer and founder of Ten10 Entertainment.
  • Jackie Motsepe is a South African film executive who heads the Kwa Zulu Natal Film Commission
  • Monde Twala is a South African entertainment executive who is Senior Vice President & GM of ViacomCBS Networks Africa.

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  • African Metropolis (2013) is a film project comprised of 6 short films set in six major African metropolitan centers. The directors include Jim Chuchu, Folasakin Iwajomo, Philippe Lacote, Vincent Moloi, and Ahmed Ghoneimy.
  • Glitterboys and Ganglands is a 2011 South African documentary on Miss Gay Western Cape and the feature debut by South African author Lauren Beukes.
  • The Shakedown is Cape Town-set crime caper comedy and Prime Video's first South African original. Set to be available globally on Aug. 8
  • Strike a Rock is an award-winning 2017 South African documentary film based on the Marikana Massacre.
  • The Manuscripts of Timbuktu is a 2009 South African documentary film by Swazi director Zola Maseko
  • Tali’s Wedding Diary is the first ever Showmax Original named South Africa’s Best Comedy at the 2019 South African Film and Television Awards. Its second season, Tali’s Baby Diary, received 11 nominations at the 2022 awards. Its 3d season, Tali’s Joburg Diary, is scheduled for release in November 2022

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  • Kings of Queenstown is South African TV movie by director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka set to drop on Netflix in November 2022.
  • King Shaka (2023 TV series) a 2023 Showtime television series about Zulu Empire founder Shaka. Executive produced by Antoine Fuqua, written by Olu Odebunmi and Tolu Awosika and staring Charmaine Bingwa and Nkeki Obi-Melekwe.

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  • MultiChoice Talent Factory
  • Realness Institute is comprised of 5 capacity building programs in the creative industry. The Institution caters to writers, producers, directors, programmers, sales & distribution professionals, episodic content creators and development executives. It was co-founded in 2015 by Elias Ribeiro.

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  • Writers Guild of South Africa
  • South African Screen Federation
  • MLA (talent agency) Founded in 1974 as Moonyeenn Lee & Associates, is a South African talent agency representing South African film talent. It was founded by casting director Moonyeenn Lee.
  • Discop Africa, a Pan-African content distribution and co-production market

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  • National Film & Video Foundation (South Africa)
  • KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission (South Africa)

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South Sudan

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Sudan

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The Empty Grave (2024), directed by Amil Shivji. Distinctions include 2025 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA) nomination for Best Indigenous Language film - East Africa.

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  • Higher School of Cinematography (ESEC), (French: Ecole supérieure de cinématographie) based in Lomé, Togo.

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  • Hamid Ibrahim is an animation production designer and creative director and co-founder of Kugali Media, the creator of the animated Disney series Iwaju.

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  • Tembele is 2022 Ugandan film and the country's submission for the 95th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.

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  • Pearlwood is the registered trademark for Uganda’s Film Industry established in 2018 and managed by a partnership of stakeholder Guilds: Actors Guild, Producers Guild, Exhibitors Guild, Cinematographers Guild, Writers Guild, and Editors Guild.

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Zambia

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  • Abraham Kabwe, Zambian film director who directed Jomako Black Democracy which got nominated for Best Movie Southern Africa at the Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards in 2018 and Dalitso which won Best Movie Southern Africa at the same awards event in 2020.

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Red Bag (2014) A comedy directed by Frank Sibbuku

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  • Afrikamera is a Berlin-based annual festival overseen by the nonprofit cultural association, toucouler e.V. since 2007 to counter the lack of awareness around contemporary African film production in the German capital.
  • Film Africa Festival is an annual festival in London run by the Royal African Society (UK)
  • Quibdó África Film Festival (Colombia)

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Diaspora African film and television Guilds/Trade Associations/Industry Organizations

  • Cinema Spaces Network is an initiative started by the Berlin-based Humboldt Forum that brings together experienced African projects to develop practical concepts and strategies that re-think cinema as a cultural and social hub. These are: Ciné Guimbi (Burkino Faso) Ciné na Biso (DRC) Manyatta Screening (Kenya) Sudan Filmmakers’ Association, Sunshine Cinema (South Africa), and the Nest Collective (Kenya)

Pan-African Production Companies/Studios/Media Companies

  • African Movie Channel is a supplier of African movie programming and television operating three 24-hour linear channels, African Movie Channel (AMC), African Movie Channel Series (AMC Series) and Nolly Africa, all offered on various TV platforms across the African continent and beyond
  • Kugali Media is a Pan-African, UK-based entertainment company focused on telling stories inspired by African Culture using comic books, art and augmented reality. It is the creator of Iwájú, an American-Nigerian animated series produced with Walt Disney Animated Studios set for release in 2023.
  • UpperRoom Productions was founded in 2016 by British Nigerian actor John Boyega and talent agent Femi Oguns.In 2020 UpperRoom signed a deal with Netflix to develop a slate of African projects based on African IP such as literary properties, Nollywood classics, screenplays and mythology.
  • YouNeek Studios is an entertainment company founded by Roye Okupe. Using graphic novels, animation, video games, and other forms of media,YouNeek produces stories inspired by African history, culture, and mythology. (Nigeria/USA)

Pan-African Public Sector Agencies/Institutions/Funds

  • African Audiovisual and Cinema Commission (AACC) is the African Union agency responsible for the promotion of the African audiovisual and cinema industry.

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