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Africa’s film and television industry is undergoing a quiet but significant transformation.

Ivan Tusabe
Ivan Tusabe

For decades, stories about the continent were often shaped through external lenses – frequently flattening Africa into familiar tropes of poverty, conflict and crisis.

But a new generation of filmmakers is changing that narrative, creating work that is more textured, self-defined and reflective of the continent’s cultural, linguistic and economic complexity.

At the centre of this shift is the MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF), MultiChoice’s pan-African training initiative designed to equip emerging filmmakers with the technical expertise, industry access and creative confidence to participate meaningfully in Africa’s growing film and television economy.

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