November 6, 2025 EbonyLife Group has officially launched EbonyLife ON Plus, the multi-vertical digital service developed by Mo Abudu. When I first covered the streaming platform in August, I wrote that it was “taking shape” with what I referred to as a measured approach. Available now via the App Store and Google Play, EbonyLife ON Plus offers users a mix of films, […]
Category: The Latest
XR, Archives, and New Funding Paths for African Storytelling
The French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), the cultural service of the French Embassy for South Africa, Lesotho, and Malawi, has launched Futures_Past: Amplifying Memory with Immersive Technologies in partnership with Electric South, the Cape Town–based organization implementing the project and overseeing artist support, production, and exhibitions. The two-year program connects artists with archives in […]
Brazil–Nigeria Treaty Under Review at AFRIFF’s New Film Market
At the newly launched Africa Film Content Market (AFCM) in Lagos, held under the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), a panel titled “Brazil and Africa – Bridging the Gap to the Lusophone World and Latin America” revisited the Brazil–Nigeria audiovisual co-production treaty signed in June 2025. Panelists — including Marcio Yatsuda, Uche Agbo, Queen Blessing […]
Pathé Touch Afrique Launches “Rumba Royale” | New African Co-Production
“Rumba Royale” — Official Trailer Out Now. Pathé’s First Major Co-Production Under Its New African Arm Tests Evolving Business Model Set in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) in 1959, “Rumba Royale” follows a photographer drawn into the city’s most exclusive nightclub as Congo approaches independence. Inside the club, music, politics, and desire collide, with rumba mirroring the tensions of […]
Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops Unveil 2025 Lineup With New Structure in Action
The Marrakech International Film Festival, held each year in Marrakech, Morocco, has announced the 28 projects and films selected for the 8th edition of the Atlas Workshops, which will take place from November 30 to December 4 during the festival’s 22nd edition (November 28–December 6, 2025). Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu, winner of the Cannes Film […]
Cannes Makes It Official: Partnership with the DRC and Support for a New National Film Center
The Festival de Cannes has officially confirmed what I reported on October 31 in “Cannes Comes to Kinshasa.” A delegation led by General Delegate Thierry Frémaux traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from October 27 to 29, 2025, to support the launch of the Congolese National Film Center — the first official Cannes […]
Benin Moves to Replace Pre-Independence Cinema Law to Overhaul Film Sector
To reiterate, for any real and sustained progress in Africa’s film, television, and digital media sectors to take shape at the continental level, participation from smaller, less established, and historically quieter markets will be essential. On 22 October 2025, the Government of Benin, meeting in the Council of Ministers under President Patrice Talon, approved the transmission to the National […]
Fifteen African Projects Selected for Red Sea Souk 2025
Red Sea Film Foundation has deepened its engagement with African filmmaking, confirming 15 African or Africa-linked projects—nearly 40% of the 2025 Red Sea Souk lineup, announced on October 30, 2025. The Red Sea Souk, held during the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (December 4–13, 2025), functions as a co-production and project […]
A New Player in African Film Distribution: Bigger Motion Officially Launches
On October 24, 2025, Bigger Motion announced its official launch as a Pan-African film distribution company during the NBO Film Festival, which ran from October 17 to 27, 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya. Bigger Motion evolved from the distribution wing of LBx Africa, the Nairobi production company founded by Sam Soko and Bramwel Iro, with a library that includes “Softie” (Sundance, 2020) and “Free Money” (TIFF, 2022). The new entity will handle acquisition and […]
Miguel Eek’s Amílcar: Trailer Drops Ahead of IDFA World Premiere
The trailer has dropped for Miguel Eek’s Amílcar, a poetic documentary about revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral, ahead of its world premiere at IDFA 2025 in the festival’s Envision Competition. Produced by Mosaic Producciones and co-produced across France, Portugal, Sweden, and Cape Verde, the film reimagines Cabral’s voice through his writings, poems, and letters—blending unpublished archives, […]