We believe cinema is a powerful art form with the ability to profoundly influence lives and reshape perspectives.
Creative Africa Lab is a creative strategy company working at the intersection of culture and economy, with film at its centre. We partner with film festivals, cultural organisations, and industry stakeholders to develop programming strategies, build curatorial frameworks, and design industry programmes that reflect the full range of global storytelling — with a particular focus on films and filmmakers from Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean.
Alongside our consulting work, we create our own projects — online and offline — that support filmmakers at different stages of their careers and strengthen the organisations that work with them.
We believe that the films coming out of the Global South deserve serious curatorial and strategic attention. Our work is about making space for those stories — inside festivals, inside industry conversations, and inside the broader cultural economy. We do this through honest, grounded work: research, strategy, curation, and programming that is built around context, not assumptions.
We work with film festivals to develop or refine their programming direction. This includes selection frameworks, thematic focus, curatorial identity, and long-term programming strategy.
We design and advise on curatorial programmes with a dedicated focus on films from Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. This includes standalone sections, retrospectives, spotlight programmes, and thematic editions within existing festivals.
We consult on the structure and content of festival industry programs including panels, content markets, networking sessions, and audience development strategies. We help festivals build industry spaces that are useful, inclusive, and well-matched to their audiences.
Alongside our creative strategy and curating work, Creative Africa Lab develops its own online and offline projects. These are built around gaps we see in the industry: spaces where filmmakers need more support, or where cultural organizations need a different kind of partner.
We work with filmmakers at any stage — whether they are developing their first project, navigating the festival circuit, looking to connect with industry, or building the infrastructure around their work. We also work with cultural organizations where film is a core or growing part of what they do, helping them build programs, platforms, and partnerships that are grounded and sustainable.
Wants to collaborate with us, please send us an email at: contact(at)creativeafrilab.com
Creative Africa Lab’s work is only possible through meaningful collaboration with partners who share a commitment to expanding the cultural conversation. These include film festivals — from internationally renowned events to regionally rooted ones — that are willing to interrogate their own curatorial frameworks and make genuine space for stories from Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the wider Global South. Cultural organizations that sit at the intersection of heritage, identity, and contemporary expression are natural allies, as are industry stakeholders — financiers, distributors, sales agents, and training bodies — who recognize that the future of global storytelling depends on structural inclusion, not symbolic gestures.
Below are some of our collaborators and partners:
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