AWARD-WINNING drama series, Shuga returns to Nigeria and seeks fresh talent for the new season. MTV Shuga Naija, is a multi-sectorial partnership led by the MTV Staying Alive Foundation and is supported by MTV Base Africa, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and NGOs.
The Film Directors Guild of Ghana (FDGG) is set to have its first Constitutional Elections this year to elect National and Regional Executives who will run the of the Association.
19 March 2019: MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF), MultiChoice Africa’s flagship Pan-African shared-value initiative is thrilled to announce the launch of the MTF Portal www.multichoicetalentfactory.com The portal is the third touchpoint of the initiative following the launch of the MTF Academies, a 12-month regional film training programme aimed at upskilling the next generation of passionate young film creatives launched in October 2018 and the MTF Masterclasses launched in January this year to upskill industry professionals.
Founded in 2010 and now in its 9th edition, the annual iREPRESENT (iREP) Film Festival will this year be held in Lagos from 21 to 24 March, keeping in with its tradition of attracting the brightest minds in film from the African continent and beyond. Since its inception, iREP’s mission has been to celebrate the best of African documentary film.
South African international film festival RapidLion, which recently took place in its Johannesburg home at the start of March, featured an impressive line-up of African, African diaspora and Brics films, such as In The Light Of The Fire by South AFrican filmmaker Rafeeqah Galant, Nigerian Prince by Faraday Okoro and Set Yourself On Fire by Darnell Lamont Walker from the US.