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.
Netflix recently launched the African Folktales Anthology at the Kalasha Film Festival held in Nairobi, Kenya with a glamorous event that attracted industry talents across sub-Saharan Africa. The project which was initiated in partnership with UNESCO brought together a new generation of storytellers to reimagine and retell tales as old as time from across the African continent.
In the short films, the young talents have reworked traditional African tales for modern local and global audiences. Korede Azeez’s Zabin Halima (Halima’s Choice) tells the tale of a young girl from a secluded Fulani village who inadvertently elopes with a man who turns out to be an AI to escape an arranged marriage.
