Tag Archives: Folktales

Six storytellers from Nigeria, South Africa, Mauritania, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania were selected from a rigorous application process and provided with a $90,000 budget each and creative guidance by established filmmakers as mentors to produce their short films. A look at the Netflix African Folktales short films premiere at the …

The upcoming release features works from six filmmakers, the winners of the streamer’s 2021 short film competition with UNESCO. Selected to represent sub-Sahara Africa, each winner got $25,000 plus an additional production budget worth $75,000 to reimagine folktales for the current audience. The selected entries are from Nigeria, South Africa, …