African AI Film Festival

An award-winning journalist and media educator with over 10 years of experience, Amira Sayed holds a Master's in Television and Digital Journalism from The American University in Cairo. Her documentary Ladies of The Nile won the 2025 BEA Festival of Media Arts Award of Excellence. She is also a recipient of the African Union Media Fellowship and the Champion of Change Award.

Award-winning director and founder of ECILA Films, Joan Kabugu is a WIFA Best Director honoree and FortyUnder40 Africa laureate. A filmmaker and entrepreneur in equal measure, she has built her career proving African stories belong on the world's biggest stages.

One of West Africa's most respected cinematographers and CEO of CineCulture Films, T.J. Seaman brings nearly three decades of feature and documentary craft. A director of photography, mentor, and film trainer, he has shaped how a generation of African stories are seen.

An AI filmmaker, digital creator, and AI-monetization expert, Pauline Nabbosa is the founder of Kreator Mastery, her own AI media firm. She represents the new generation of African creators building natively with AI.

Ranked among Africa's top five AI artists, Malik Afegbua's viral Elder Series reframed how the world sees African creativity and AI. Through his studio Slick City Media, he uses AI to preserve Africa's fading oral histories and lost heritage. A Salzburg Global Fellow whose work has reached Cannes and clients from Marvel to Meta — a defining voice for African storytelling in the age of AI.

Award-winning producer with over 40 credits across feature films, documentaries, and TV series. Her work includes SA's submission to the 96th Academy Awards (Music Is My Life), Netflix's Wild Is the Wind, and Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me, winner of the Special Jury Prize at IDFA 2013. Films screened across 150 channels in Africa and on BBC, Canal+, ZDF/Arte, and Sky Arts. Featured in Forbes Africa.

Multiple award-winning Kenyan director whose debut feature Supa Modo premiered at the Berlinale 2018, collected 58 international awards — including Zanzibar's Golden Dhow, Durban's Artistic Bravery Award, and an Edinburgh Special Mention — and became Kenya's official Oscar submission. His short films screened at Cannes and made history as the first Kenyan work on IMAX. Currently developing an African sci-fi series and his sophomore feature.

Rita Lamotte began her career on Ridley Scott's Gladiator at 17. A psychology graduate turned filmmaker, she earned her cinema degree from UCLA and spent a decade in front of and behind the camera — from Hollywood features to assisting Terrence Malick. She co-founded Ksar Production in Morocco, bridging global storytelling with Moroccan culture and providing full production services to international filmmakers.