Kenya’s movie and artistic sector is getting ready to transformational development because the Africa Film Finance Forum (AFFF) prepares for its landmark 2025 version, set to happen in Lagos, Nigeria, from September 16–18.
Held beneath the theme “Pan-African Film Economy: Building a $20B Industry for 1.4 billion People,” AFFF 2025 will give attention to catalyzing funding, innovation, and collaboration throughout the continent’s movie worth chain.
With a daring imaginative and prescient to unlock a Ksh2.6 trillion Pan-African movie financial system, AFFF provides a novel alternative for Kenyan filmmakers, traders, and policymakers to place the nation as a continental chief in cinematic innovation and artistic enterprise.
What’s in for Kenya
For Kenya, the stakes are excessive, and so are the alternatives.
“Kenya’s movie business is already identified for its creativity and expertise, however with entry to higher financing instruments, coverage frameworks, and distribution channels, we will go a lot additional,” stated Mary Njoki, a Kenyan member of the AFFF 2025 PR Advisory Board.
From critically acclaimed titles like Supa Modo, Click Click Bang, and Crime & Justice, to gorgeous shoot places from the Great Rift Valley to Lamu, Kenya is already a main hub for movie manufacturing.
The Investor’s Room & Deal Table will give Kenyan producers with prepared initiatives direct pitching alternatives to native and worldwide financiers.
Special classes will practice banks and funding companies to grasp movie as a bankable asset, encouraging native funding and institutional assist.
Kenya’s breathtaking places shall be marketed as premier movie locations, attracting international productions and boosting movie tourism.
With Nairobi’s thriving tech ecosystem, Kenya is poised to guide conversations on FilmTech, together with digital manufacturing instruments, IP administration, and streaming innovation.
“We should view movie not simply as artwork, however as infrastructure—financial, cultural, and digital,” famous Bolaji Abimbola, Co-Chair of AFFF’s Strategic Communications Committee.
“For Kenya, this implies scaling artistic jobs, export income, and international affect,” Bolaji added.
Toward a Sustainable Film Industry
AFFF’s broader mission is to industrialize Africa’s movie sector, transferring past casual manufacturing networks right into a future formed by co-productions, streaming platforms, expertise pipelines, and policy-backed growth.
“This is Africa’s artistic century,” emphasised Clarina De Freitas, fellow Co-Chair.
“Kenya’s tales, voices, and landscapes are central to it, however provided that matched with the financing, platforms, and insurance policies that empower native creators.”
The AFFF 2025 PR Advisory Board, which incorporates Kenyan representatives alongside friends from Nigeria, South Africa, and throughout the continent, ensures Kenya has a powerful voice in crafting a Pan-African roadmap for artistic development.
For Kenyan creatives, studios, traders, and policymakers, the discussion board is greater than an occasion; it’s a strategic launchpad for long-term transformation of the nation’s movie and artistic industries.
About AFFF
The Africa Film Finance Forum (AFFF) is the continent’s premier platform for mobilizing capital, data, and cross-sector partnerships to speed up the African movie and artistic financial system.
The discussion board brings collectively filmmakers, financiers, growth establishments, and governments to construct a globally aggressive, sustainable artistic sector.
