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Miral El-Fakharany is a Egyptian-American producer with over ten years of hands-on experience in feature films, television, and advertising, including projects in Egypt, UAE, and the United States. She began her career in advertising, working with high end brands such as Samsung and Ford. Miral is passionate about social impact and aims to shepherd and produce stories that exemplify the causes in which she believes. Her most recent project as producer, Snow White, was selected for the 7th Cairo...

17 February, 2021

Henock Shiferaw is a 24 year old Ethiopian avionics technician turned filmmaker. Henock explored various career paths, from sales to digital marketing, before settling into a long term position as an editor at XX (enter media company name here) media company. Through his work, Henock’s passion for film has grown. He is currently working on his directorial debut for his short film, Flickering Lights. Selected for IEFTA Mentorship at the 4th GFE Ethiopia Conference 2020....

17 February, 2021

Aya Yusuf is an Egyptian Producer, Director and Editor. She co-founded Shoghl Cairo Pictures as an independent film production company in 2020. Aya graduated with a degree in Mass Communications from Cairo University and began working as an editor and producer for television and online content. Her experiences working in various media organizations sparked her passion for documentary film and the impact it can have on raising awareness for human rights and social injustice issues. Aya joined SEE MEDIA PRODUCTION...

17 February, 2021

Lara Sousa is a director and producer. She is the founder of Kulunga Filmes, a company based in Maputo, focused on fostering the cinematographic production ecosystem in Portuguese-speaking African countries. She is currently producing her first documentary The Ship and the Sea which was selected for the Berlinale Doc Station and won the IDFA Bertha Fund Award at the Durban FilmMart 2020. Lara is a fellow of Digital Lab Africa, and Realness Creative Producers Indaba. She also works as...

17 February, 2021

Born in São Vicente, Samira Vera-Cruz is a young Cape-Verdean film director and producer. With a major in Film Studies and a minor in Global Communications from the American University of Paris (France), Samira has experience working in Cabo Verde, Angola and Mozambique. She started the production company Parallax Produções in November 2016, and began making films. She debuted her career as a director with the short film Buska Santu, which toured in various festivals and won the Best...

17 February, 2021

Silvio Nascimento is an Angolan actor and producer who began his career in theatre at the age of 7 in his hometown, Lubango.  Silvio has appeared in a variety of films, series and soap operas and has been nominated 3 times for Emmy Awards in New York. More recently, Silvio launched 'Tellas', a streaming platform dedicated to creating and disseminating original Portuguese language content internationally....

17 February, 2021