Alternativa Film Festival, the Global South film festival founded and supported by inDrive, has opened submissions for its first African edition. For its fourth edition, the festival welcomes feature films from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Short film submissions are open exclusively to filmmakers from Africa, the festival’s focus region for 2027. All entries must…
Liza Key transformed South Africa’s film scene, challenging apartheid censorship, nurturing filmmakers and bringing humanity to stories of injustice, opening new possibilities for South African storytelling. Liza Key (1954-2026) In the first week of September 1990 a bomb went off in the Avalon Theatre in Fordsburg – the first act of political violence I experienced…
Both films will compete against seven productions from across the continent Nigerian films To Adaego With Love, The Herd and Colours of Fire have emerged as the country’s leading contenders at the 22nd Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), securing 11, 10 and nine nominations, respectively. The nominations were announced on Saturday, ahead of the awards…
“I tell my kids I work in a time machine,” said Rhony Dostaly. In a basement beneath Lincoln Center, the media preservation engineer rescues moments from the past. “I go back in time, and I grab elements, and I make them available for people today.” He and his colleagues at the New York Public Library…
There is something pleasingly improbable about Angh. The film comes from Nagaland, a mountainous state of fewer than two million people on India’s northeastern frontier, and is in Konyak, a tribal language unfamiliar to most Indians, never mind audiences abroad. It was director Theja Rio’s first feature and most of its cast faced a camera…
A previously unknown Windows trojan distributed through pirated film downloads has infected several hundred individuals and organisations across Europe, Asia and Africa, and uses the Solana blockchain to keep its command infrastructure out of reach of conventional takedowns. Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team, which named the malware MovieReaper, published its analysis on Securelist late…
African film festivals were once quite rare, but in the past decades they’ve been growing in the continent and mushrooming around the world. A recent open access book explores these events through case studies. The book’s editor, African cinema scholar Sheila Petty, has also written chapters in it about the role film festivals play in…
“The release of The Odyssey is still an event to celebrate,” Wilson noted. “This epic is bringing audiences back to cinemas… translations of Odyssey, including mine, are flying off the shelves… [and] perhaps the film will persuade a few college administrators not to cut their literature, language and history departments. “Nolan… is doing his best…
Elevate Africa has opened applications for the Threads of Africa Fashion Film Prize 2026, a continent-wide initiative aimed at preserving Africa’s rich textile heritage by empowering creatives to tell stories of endangered fabrics, garments, and traditional craftsmanship through film. The competition brings together fashion, culture, and visual storytelling, inviting designers, filmmakers, students, and creative teams…
Elevate Africa has announced the commencement of applications for the 2026 edition of the Threads of Africa Fashion Film Prize, a pan-African initiative aimed at preserving and promoting endangered African textiles, garments and traditional fashion techniques through storytelling and film. The organisation said the competition seeks to encourage creatives across Africa and the diaspora to…
