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Below is a continuously updated list of African film and television-related subjects that don’t have a Wikipedia page. Here editors can explore topics of interest to create an article. People can also add topics that they think require a Wikipedia entry. For those interested in an entry being created but are hindered from starting an article themselves because of a potential conflict of interest, this list is a good place to suggest the entry.

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Bios[edit]

Actors/actresses[edit]

Yann Gael, French-Cameroonian Actor

Animators[edit]

Adebisi Adetayo is a Nigerian 3-D animation motion designer and the director of Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters (2020) which won best animation at the 2021 Africa International Film Festival and Africa Movie Academy Awards.

Andrew Kaggia is a Kenyan animator and the director of TeraStorm, a computer-animated science fiction film (2022) that was selected as Kenya's entry for Best International Film for the 95th Academy Awards, making it the first African animated film to be selected to compete for this award. It is also the first original African-scripted animated feature with African characters and context to be nominated for an Oscar.

Art directors[edit]

Cinematographers[edit]

Composers[edit]

Amin Bouhafa, Algerian Composer

Costume designers[edit]

Directors[edit]

Editors[edit]

Sara Abdallah is an Egyptian film editor. A long-time collaborator of director Ahmad Abdalla, she has edited his musical drama Heliopolis, Microphone (for which she won best editing at Dubai Film Festival 2010, Rags And Tatters (2013) and his 2022 drama 18B. She has also edited documentaries including Tahrir 2011: The Good, the Bad, and the Politician

Film Critic/Writers[edit]

Fatou Kine Sene is a Senegalese journalist and the president of the African Federation of Film Critics.

Film/entertainment executives[edit]

  • Moses Babatope is a Nigerian entertainment executive. He is the co-founder and Managing Director at FilmOne Entertainment, a film production and distribution company, and Group Deputy Managing Director of Filmhouse Group, the largest cinema chain in anglophone West Africa and one of the biggest in Africa.
  • Nkateko Mabaso is a South African entertainment executive. He is currently Director of Licensing & Co-productions for Netflix Africa. His previous role was as Group Executive Programming for Multichoice.
  • Tendeka Matatu is an entertainment executive who has been serving as Netflix’s Director of Local Language Films for Africa since 2021, following a career as a director and producer and founder of Ten10 Entertainment.
  • Kene Mkparua is Group President and CEO of KOMWORLD a Nigerian & UK entertainment company that owns KOMWORLD Cinema and StudioKOM Production & Distribution.
  • Jackie Motsepe is a South African film executive who heads the Kwa Zulu Natal Film Commission
  • Nomsa Philiso is a South African entertainment executive, currently the CEO of General Entertainment at South African entertainment company Multichoice Group.
  • Tambay Amadi Obenson is a Nigerian-born Los Angeles-based film critic, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. He founded Shadow and Act, a website dedicated to covering Black talent and entertainment across the television and film industries (acquired by Blavity) and in September 2022 launched a fundraising campaign for Aroko, an African cinema-focused online platform.
  • Monde Twala is a South African entertainment executive who is Senior Vice President & GM of ViacomCBS Networks Africa.

Makeup artists[edit]

Production designers[edit]

Hamid Ibrahim is an animation production designer and creative director and co-founder of Kugali Media, the creator of the animated Disney series Iwaju.

Producers[edit]

Screenwriters[edit]

Tolu Awosika is a Nigerian-American screenwriter and producer known for King Shaka, a 2023 Showtime TV series and Mzungu, announced in 2022.

Rohan Dickson is a South African screenwriter and show runner. He created, wrote and produced the 2021 South African crime thriller series "Reyka as well as the TV drama series Desert Rose, both produced for M-Net.

Antonio Dikele Distefano is an Italian-Angolan screenwriter and creator of Zero, a 2021 Italian television series that marked Italy’s first show centered around the present-day lives of black Italian youth.

Emil B. Garuba is a screenwriter, director and producer. He is the co-writer of the 2016 AMVCA winning Feature Film Road to Yesterday, 2018's Lionheart, the first Netflix Original film from Nigeria, and of the 2020 political thriller 4th Republic.

Sabelo Mgidi is a South African screenwriter known for penning Netflix’s 2022 film Silverton Siege. In 2019, he was served as head writer on seasons one and two of Netflix series Kings of Joburg. As of November 2022, he was in development on an unnamed six-part series for Netflix.

Sound editors[edit]

Talent Agents[edit]

Visual effects artist/producers[edit]

Films and TV series[edit]

Films[edit]

TV Series[edit]

Film Festivals and other Film-related events[edit]

Organizations[edit]

Schools/Training programs[edit]

Guilds/Trade Associations/Industry Organizations[edit]

Productions Companies/Studios/Media Companies[edit]

  • UpperRoom Productions was founded in 2016 by British Nigerian actor John Boyega and talent agent Femi Oguns.In 2020 UpperRoom signed a deal with Netflix to develop a slate of African projects based on African IP such as literary properties, Nollywood classics, screenplays and mythology.
  • YouNeek Studios is an entertainment company founded by Roye Okupe. Using graphic novels, animation, video games, and other forms of media,YouNeek produces stories inspired by African history, culture, and mythology. (Nigeria/USA)

Public Sector Agencies/Institutions/Funds[edit]

Awards[edit]

Miscellaneous Topics[edit]