Roll Call Africa
Exclusive conversations with the directors, producers, writers, and executives shaping African cinema.
Jáde Osiberu made Isoken in 2017. It took her almost three years to raise the ₦45 million to produce it, flying blind through a distribution system nobody would…
She learned filmmaking in Kigali two decades ago from a then-unknown director named Lee Isaac Chung, who would…
He is from the DRC. He is a refugee in Bangui. He learned filmmaking in 2018 at Ateliers…
The Herd is about a man imprisoned and a wife who goes to extraordinary lengths to free him.…
She built the most operatic crime franchise in Nollywood. Then she made something with no gloss, no grandiose…
She was fourteen years old when she travelled to Kenya as a Save the Children representative and sat…
She left film for marketing in 2012, launched a separate business as a "cash cow", and used it…
In February 2026, a few days after Anikulapo: The Ghoul Awakens opened on Netflix to divided reactions, Kunle…
She was in the middle of an Oscar campaign when she heard Hind Rajab's voice for the first…
She moved back to Zambia in 2024 so her daughter could know where she came from before she…
