Netflix & UNESCO

Finding Africa’s next generation of filmmakers: Netflix & UNESCO launch Groundbreaking competition in Sub-Saharan Africa

Finding Africa’s next generation of filmmakers: Netflix & UNESCO launch Groundbreaking competition in Sub-Saharan Africa

Netflix and UNESCO have partnered to launch an innovative short film competition on ‘African Folktales, Reimagined’ across Sub-Saharan Africa. Winners of the competition will be trained and mentored by industry professionals and provided with a US$75,000 production budget to create short films that will premiere on Netflix in 2022 as an “Anthology of African folktales”.