What Exactly Is All This Sex Doing in Blood Sisters?
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
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Features, reviews, and essays on film and TV shows from across the African continent
Blood Sisters Understands That Sex Can Tell a Story. It Just Doesn’t Always Know What Story It’s Telling.
5 days ago
My Father’s Shadow dual-citizenship tension isn’t an isolated conversation in African cinema. From the early 2000’s to date, there have been a select number of African titles with similar tension.
1 month ago
Intentional storytelling are the purposeful creative choices that involve a smooth blend of narrative, aesthetic style and themes in a manner that enhances meaning and overall appeal.
4 months ago
Afolabi Olalekan’s Freedom Way written and produced by Blessing Uzzi, takes a lengthy and laborious 90 minutes to drive home a single point: our lives, as humans and Nigerians, especially, are connected. Uzzi’s script assembles a varied cast to make this point: the co-founders of Easy Go Ride, Themba (Jesse Suntele), Tayo (Ogaranya), and Edi […]
11 months ago
The Yoruba people have a saying: “Sátídé ti ọ dà, àti Jímọ́h láti mọ́.” Although there are different iterations of this saying, what they loosely translate to is that tomorrow’s greatness is foreshadowed in the details of today. This often-recycled axiom captures my thoughts after watching the trailer for Akay Mason’s Red Circle which has […]
12 months ago
Globally, cinema is an illusion and filmmakers work in the business of illusion. Through their artistic production, moving images, sound, scenes, they curate a world that matches one viewers are familiar with. The attentive storyteller, performer and filmmaker learn to progressively infuse quotidian details into their stories, performance and films. The more convincing the details […]
3 months ago
The African Producers Accelerator programme (APA) is returning for its second edition after a successful inaugural edition. This time, applications are open for mid-career African producers eager to strengthen their companies, sharpen their strategy and scale their impact. The APA is a joint initiative by Big World Cinema in partnership with the Bertha Foundation and […]
3 months ago
The Next Narrative Africa Fund (NNAF) has unveiled its first slate of development projects, including productions involving Africa-based and diaspora filmmakers, selected from more than 2,000 global submissions. NNAF is a $40 million mission-driven content and media fund that invests in commercially viable audio-visual content made on the Continent by African and African-diaspora storytellers. Launched […]
3 months ago
Kate Henshaw’s career is a template for utilising celebrity status for social impact, while still maintaining a strong presence and evolving on screen.
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Zimbabwean director and producer, Tapiwa Chipfupa and her film initiative Audiovisual Entrepreneurs Laboratory (AVEL), were awarded the coveted Berlinale Talents Mastercard Enablement Programme at the recently concluded festival. The grant will support AVEL in equipping Zimbabwean producers with mentorship and guidance on film business. The Zimbabwean industry, like its neighbouring continental counterparts, suffers from the […]
3 months ago
Realness Institute, the organisation supporting the growth of African independent screen creatives, has appointed a new board of directors and alumni advisory council as it prepares for its next phase. The institute whose interest is in inspiring a new wave of African cinema, launched in 2015 and has created space for the development of multiple […]
3 months ago
The rise of digital platforms has made it easier for pirates to distribute films illegally, with platforms like NetNaija being accused of hosting pirated content.
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With this campaign, we spotlight some of these women across the many dimensions of the industry and use them as a lens for the wider progress that has been accomplished through the resilience and persistence of women in film.
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