The anticipated Cradle Film Studios took one step closer to completion this week after securing investment from the Industrial Development Corp. (IDC) and entering its financing stage, announced Known ...

In 2019, South African filmmaker Rethabile Ramaphakela was on the cusp of her big break. After more than a decade in the film sector, the comedy screenwriter, producer and director had scored funding ...

Led by Akunna Cook, CEO of Next Narrative Africa, and investment expert Wakiuru Njuguna, managing partner at HEVA Fund, it will prioritize "narrative-shifting content from Africa and its diaspora." By ...

Idris Elba has shared more on his plans to help build the entertainment industry in Africa. The Golden Globe winner has said he planned to build film studios in Ghana and Tanzania. A 2021 UNESCO ...

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), through its development impact investment arm, the Fund for Export-Development in Africa (FEDA), has committed to spearhead the launch of the Africa Film Fund ...

Very few films from Africa have been presented at the Venice Film Festival since its inception. This year, running from 28 August to 7 September, is sadly no exception. Films from sub-Saharan Africa ...

But the pay-TV giant's top goal remains serving core African audiences, with nine of the 10 most watched shows on streamer Showmax now being local and 'House of the Dragon' the big exception. By Georg ...

The first-ever edition of AfroBerlin put Africa in the spotlight at the Berlin Film Festival and in one key session asked how festivals, streamers, and the wider industry can — and should — support ...

A new feature film chronicling the life of South African transgender icon Granny Lee is due to begin production in Johannesburg in April 2025. The project, titled “Granny Lee,” participated at the ...

This jewel of experimental cinema tells the story of an educated Nigerian in San Francisco at the height of the Black Panther movement. Never shown in cinemas at the time of its release in 1971, the ...