Pitch Your Script – Next Narrative Africa Fund
The Next Narrative Africa Fund is a $40 million mission driven content and media fund to invest in commercially viable audio-visual content made on the Continent by African and African-diaspora storytellers.
The Next Narrative Africa Fund aims to change the narrative about Africa and people of African descent by telling African stories for global impact. It will also fuel the growth of the creative industries in Africa, empower artists by promoting business and intellectual property ownership, and contribute to sustainable livelihoods across Africa and its diaspora.
Powering Africa’s Next Narrative
The Next Narrative Africa Fund is a $40 million mission driven content and media fund to invest in commercially viable audio-visual content made on the Continent by African and African-diaspora storytellers.
The Next Narrative Africa Fund aims to change the narrative about Africa and people of African descent by
telling African stories for global impact. It will also fuel the growth of the creative industries in Africa, empower
artists by promoting business and intellectual property ownership, and contribute to sustainable livelihoods across Africa and its diaspora.
Goals of the Inaugural Development Grant
Submissions Process
1. Narrative Change
• NNA Fund is looking for projects that allow for new and different stories about and images of Africa to be seen by the world
• We want to defy and challenge stereotypes about Africa and Africans while we entertain
• We are looking for projects and filmmakers who have something interesting to say about the impact areas we identified and, as a result, the world and the time we are living in
• We are especially interested in projects that have applied a gender lens, whether that be confronting gender tropes/stereotypes or showcasing healthy masculinity.
Ultimately, we want to positively influence norms in ways that benefit young people around the world, but especially women and girls.
In short, we want to support the kinds of projects that the world
should see about Africa and Africans
Goals of the Submissions Process
2. Pipeline Building for Equity Fund
• NNA Fund is looking for projects that will potentially enter the commercial equity fund’s pipeline.
• We want stories and projects that can travel; stories that an audience around the world can relate to it while maintaining the authenticity of the storyteller(s) and the time and place in which the story is told.
• We want to select projects from a cohort of filmmakers and production companies that can be great ambassadors for the brand—we can depend on them to deliver and be great partners to the Fund now and in the future.
• We manage reputational risk by working with partners who align with our values.
In short, we want projects that will make money and win awards
Central Park Zoo: A History In New York Conservatory
An opportunity for a self-tour of the iconic Central Park Zoo to capture images deepens a chance to increase visibility to the importance of wildlife, conservation, and the natural world.
By Oyiza Adaba, New York
An opportunity for a self-tour of the iconic Central Park Zoo to capture images deepens a chance to increase visibility to the importance of wildlife, conservation, and the natural world.
Images at Central Park Zoo
The Arsenal Building on 5th Ave and 64 Street was where a premier global organization based in New York City, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) briefed members of the foreign press. The briefing centered on their current strategies to contribute to regional and global conservation.
WCS manages the world’s largest field-conservation effort in more than 50 countries with a portfolio of Nature’s Strongholds covering more than 16 million hectares. Topics discussed include work to declare the Hudson Canyon, 100 miles off the coast of New York a National Marine Sanctuary; legislation in the U,S. Congress that would lead to more funding of conservation projects around the world; and WCS’s role in advancing 30x30.
Globally recognized days for conservation include World Wildlife Day in March and Environmental / Earth Awareness Month in April.
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