Roll Call Africa
Data-driven, framework-based intelligence on how African cinema actually works — distribution economics, audience behaviour, marketing effectiveness.
Africa is mobilising up to $1 billion for film, but banks still need a reason to trust production budgets. A continental completion-guarantee system could unlock the capital grants…
Morocco’s production incentives attracted record film activity. The next test is whether infrastructure built for foreign shoots produces…
Five African works in progress are seeking completion support at Venice. The available prizes reveal the hidden costs…
The Odyssey earned $2.59 million in South Africa but only $46,109 in Kenya. One film’s results expose why…
South Africa’s 2026 box-office top ten contains no local film, yet 76% of surveyed viewers say they will…
MultiChoice and FAME Week Africa are looking for an eight-to-12-episode premium drama. The opportunity is real, but African…
NBO Film Festival’s seventh edition introduces a documentary prize named after Nick Wambugu, a short-fiction competition and its…
The Night of June 7th, Linda Ikeji's dramatisation of the 2005 Apo Six extrajudicial killings, was hours from…
Netflix licenses films that already succeeded theatrically. Canal+ signs studios with proven hits like The Black Book. Amazon's…
The top seven Nollywood films of the first half of 2026 grossed a cumulative ₦1.665 billion. The top…
Umthetho — an eight-episode South African crime drama, a local adaptation of the Brazilian Netflix hit Brotherhood —…
Nollywood pulled ahead of Hollywood in the first half of 2026 — but it did so leaning on…
