Pius Talemwa. PHOTO | COURTESY
Creatives from Uganda and Kenya are among the four African screenwriters selected from more than 160 applications for the 2024/2025 AuthenticA Series Lab presented by the South African-based Realness Institute in partnership with The StoryBoard Collective, (Switzerland), and with support of the Series Mania Forum (France) and the Canada Media Fund.
Submissions this year came from 27 countries, covering 23 genres of television series. The four selected African screenwriters have been named as Pius Talemwa (Uganda), Tony Koros (Kenya), Aden Abebe (Canada/Ethiopia), and Mlilo Mpondo (South Africa).
In a hotly contested space for the development of screenplays, the AuthenticA Series Lab will support the four writers to advance their series ideas into pilot scripts, and create “pitch Bibles” to take these confidently to highly competitive international content markets………CONTINUE READING………