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Arts Reporter
Zimbabwean graduates of the MultiChoice Talent Factory are making inroads into Africa’s film and television industry and are poised to have a meaningful influence.
The MTF initiative was created several years ago and has seen MultiChoice Africa establish three academies to provide training and skills enhancement for aspiring filmmakers from across the continent.
One academy, based in Lusaka, Zambia serves Southern Africa, while two others serve East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya) and West Africa (Lagos, Nigeria).
For each of these, 20 students are selected to study each year on an annual course of wide-ranging content, thus providing an input of 60 trained and work-ready graduates for the industry.
Zimbabwe has had eight students graduate to date and two are currently in school in Lusaka.
Graduates of the programme are well placed to become the future of the industry.
One of the 2023 graduates was Simbarashe Nyahwa, who feels his MTF participation was among the most rewarding and exciting periods of his life.
“During my time at the MTF we were given a chance to go on what they call an immersion with Zambezi Magic production, which gave us a chance to see what happens behind the scenes of the film productions we see on television and where we could enjoy hands-on experience,” he said.
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