NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – Kenya’s movie and artistic sector is ready to realize from the upcoming Africa Film Finance Forum (AFFF), which returns this September in Lagos, Nigeria, with an bold aim of unlocking a $20 billion Pan-African movie economic system.
Scheduled for September 16–18, the discussion board will convene trade stakeholders below the theme “Pan-African Film Economy: Building a $20B Industry for 1.4 Billion People.”
It goals to create a roadmap for remodeling African cinema right into a structured, high-value financial sector.
Kenya, with a rising status for expertise and storytelling, is predicted to learn by means of a number of initiatives concentrating on entry to capital, location advertising, monetary coaching, and authorities alignment.
Key alternatives embrace entry to financing, capability constructing for native banks, and coverage engagement, amongst others.
The discussion board is a part of a continental push to formalize the movie trade, assist co-productions, and enhance cross-border collaboration.
It additionally seeks to extend the continent’s share in international streaming content material and construct infrastructure for sustainable expertise growth.
Kenya shall be represented on the AFFF 2025 PR Advisory Board by Mary Njoki, becoming a member of a Pan-African workforce of trade professionals guiding the discussion board’s outreach and technique.
For Kenya’s filmmakers, financiers, and policymakers, AFFF presents a platform to scale up the nation’s position in Africa’s rising inventive economic system.
