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African Content Ready for “Global Moment”: MultiChoice at MIP Africa 5

02/09/2024 by Nik

“There’s a good chance that Africa’s film industry is about to have its own global moment.” That’s the bullish take shared on Monday about the state of African film and TV programming by Nomsa Philiso, CEO of general entertainment at African pay-TV giant MultiChoice Group, the owner of African streamer Showmax, in her opening speech at …

Sing Sing to Open 2024 Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival 5

11/07/2024 by Nik

Colman Domingo‘s prison drama Sing Sing is set to open the 22nd Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF). This year’s lineup also includes Christine Swanson’s road drama Albany Road, starring Renée Elise Goldsberry and Lynn Whitfield; Dawn Porter’s Luther Vandross documentary Luther: Never too Much; the doc short The Rebel Girls; and Harvard historian …