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EXCLUSIVE: U.S.-based shaper Autumn Bailey-Ford (Tulsa) and Simo Kubheka and Damien Brown of nan South African-based NV Film Studios and Services person collaborated to motorboat AfriNova Entertainment Group.
The group said nan caller institution will purpose to span “African and world storytelling done innovative intermezo partnerships.”
Bailey-Ford, Kubheka, and Brown person said nan company’s main attraction will beryllium world movie and tv production, co-productions betwixt Africa and world markets, talent improvement and imaginative partnerships, distribution and financing opportunities, and culturally impactful storytelling pinch worldwide appeal.
“AfriNova Entertainment Group was created to build bridges done storytelling,” Bailey-Ford said successful a statement. “Our imagination is to create powerful contented that not only entertains audiences astir nan world but besides creates sustainable opportunities for filmmakers, talent, and imaginative professionals crossed Africa and beyond.”
She added that nan institution will purpose to unfastened caller doors arsenic “an world accumulation house, pinch centres successful nan United States and Africa, which we each telephone home.”
Kubheka added: “This is simply a caller era of African movie accumulation astatine a world level. The operation of Autumn’s imaginative talents, paired pinch our locations’ earthy wonders, positive nan biggest movie workplace successful Africa, forms a unsocial opportunity to show what it intends to beryllium ‘Made successful Africa’.”
NV Film Studios launched successful 2023. The installation is based astatine Lourensford Estate, astir 40km from Cape Town International Airport, pinch 118,000 sq ft of shape space. NV Film Services is nan company’s accumulation work arm. Bailey-Ford is simply a shaper pinch credits specified arsenic Netflix’s forthcoming Color Book and Blackbear (2019).
