Where filmmakers from the African continent and Diaspora take up space and talk shop about their work. Interviews by award-winning Tanzanian-American filmmaker Ekwa Msangi.
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African Cinema Now! is an edited podcast where filmmakers from the African continent and diaspora talk about the work that they make, their struggles and triumphs, and where they can engage further with audiences about how they see the world.
Podcast Episodes
Zekarias Tibebu Mesfin Introduces “Ewir Amora Kelabi”
I was keep praying. So God helping me and he see my heart and I get what I want. That’s why I named my film “Ewir Amora Kelabi.” First time filmmaker Zekarias Tibebu Mesfin talks about his autobiographical debut film “Ewir Amora Kelabi” which tells the epic story of one man’s journey as he overcomes …
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Akin Omotoso talks “Vaya”
What started as a place where people from the streets came to share stories, developed into this project that…then became the story of the lives of these four gentlemen who also co-wrote the script…crafted this story based on their lives In this episode we speak to director Akin Omotoso about his film “Vaya,” which is …
Ernest Danjuma Talks Nollywood
It was like this girl who… like was… like turned into a … serpent! (laughs) In this sampler episode, I speak to my friend Ernest Danjuma about his growing up in a country where images of Black African people was commonplace, something that most Africans living on the continent in the 80’s and 90’s never …
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