"What I really love about this event is because it brings us as Africans together to recognize each other and celebrate one another. So I think it's really important that we have days like this so ...

When A24 came aboard to distribute Rungano Nyoni’s latest film, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” the director was a little wary. “A24 is such a brand — and brands always frighten me,” she says over Zoom ...

With Netflix and Amazon cooling on content investments in the region, African filmmakers are forging new models of independence and collaboration: “We’ve had to figure out how to do it on our own.” By ...

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 set his sights on relocating to Africa, he said in an interview published this week. Speaking to the BBC in Accra, Ghana, the 52-year-old actor, known for his roles in hit shows such as ...

Founded in 2005 by Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, AMAA was established to promote and celebrate excellence in African cinema, increase the global visibility of African films, and foster cross-continental ...

Raymond Anyiam-Osigwe, the Designated Chair/CEO of the AFA board expressed in a press statement that this year's edition would celebrate the late founder Peace Anyiam-Osigwe and also the contributions ...

"Let the star through!" Screen Daily has revealed the first official trailer for an African movie called Congo Boy, made by Congolese filmmaker Rafiki Fariala as his first narrative feature. It's one ...

EXCLUSIVE: U.S.-based producer Autumn Bailey-Ford (Tulsa) and Simo Kubheka and Damien Brown of the South African-based NV ...

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 ...

Hangzhou — Three decades ago, a young man from Gabon named Jean-Luc Godard came across a Chinese movie called The Iron Bodyguard, amazed by the martial arts and flying actions in the movie, saying ...