Our April 2026 updated 54-country registry documents each country’s level of activity, confirms agreement-level arrangements, separately verifies official non-treaty cooperation agreements, and identifies gaps where no official record has yet to be located. 21 African countries have confirmed official agreement-level film or audio-visual co-production status, plus two with separately confirmed official non-treaty cooperation instruments.
This report builds on work I first published nearly a year ago and have continued to update behind the scenes since, with the goal of making the record as complete and accurate as possible. That process has included long waits for responses, clarifications, or confirmations from officials, and in some cases, no response at all.
As Q2 kicks off, this feels like a good moment to share what we’ve learned over the past 10 months.
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