Roll Call Africa
Theatrical releases, production intelligence, distribution, and the business of African film.
The Rising Watchlist has spent 2026 tracking directors, actors and producers. This week it turns to a craft the trade press almost never names: the art department. Samuel…
South Africa's Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications has summoned Canal+ to answer for the Showmax shutdown, frozen commissions,…
Damilola Orimogunje just made history as the first Nigerian director to compete at Venice Days, with his sophomore…
Netflix licenses films that already succeeded theatrically. Canal+ signs studios with proven hits like The Black Book. Amazon's…
Damilola Orimogunje's second feature, Dear Ajayi, will world-premiere in competition at the 23rd Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days)…
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…
The RollCallAfrica Commercial Index™ measures screen talent across five dimensions: Box Office, Audience trust, Brand value, Cultural impact,…
Jáde Osiberu made Isoken in 2017. It took her almost three years to raise the ₦45 million to…
The Critics Company — the young Nigerian filmmaking and VFX collective from Kaduna that famously taught itself special…
The Eyes of Ghana, from two-time Oscar-winning documentarian Ben Proudfoot, is a tribute to Chris Hesse — the…
