eThekwini Blue Economy Week
Last week, the NEWF Community took to Durban’s beachfront to participate in the eThekwini Blue Economy Week where Pragna Parsotam-Kok (Co-Founder and Executive Director of NEWF) went live on air with Cape Talk and Radio 702 to talk about the NEWF Community and how our access work fits into the Blue Economy conversation.
Celebrating Impact Filmmakers at the 2024 Jackson Wild Media Awards
The Jackson Wild Media Awards is one of the most prestigious in the nature and wildlife world. What makes Jackson Wild special is a sense of community seldom found at this scale in the nature and wildlife industry. Straight out of FAME Week, Noel and Pragna flew to Washington D.C. to attend the ceremony and present a Lifetime Achievement Award to the legendary impact filmmaker and conservationist, Mike Pandey.
And that’s a wrap on our first FAME Week!
FAME Week has been a whirlwind sharing NEWF’s programs and impact with visitors at our booth, in our sessions and during one-on-one exchanges. From VR and film catalogues to unpacking labs and our Africa Refocused program; we are energised by the support for our vision, mission and an equitable future for African Storytellers.
How many African photographers and cinematographers have the opportunity to film wildlife off the continent?
While diversity and inclusion across industries that include arts, culture, entertainment and film have been a fervent topic-turned-movement, we are a long way from close comparisons to the sheer volume of foreign talent building their careers on bodies of work produced on the African continent. For Peter Ndung’u from Kenya, the ancestors aligned time and place in such a way that a recommendation from a peer, and an already acquired VISA for a trip to see his wife Ruth (an academic in residency in Austria) led to an opportunity to join the Gulo Film Production crew led by Oliver Goetzl on assignment for four weeks in the snow in Eastern Finland.