Filmmaker Mehret Mandefro advocates for greater opportunities for Africans to share their stories through cinema, emphasizing the continent's rich storytelling traditions and the challenges in distribution.
Mehret Mandefro, an Emmy-nominated producer and managing director of the Realness Institute, spoke at the 'Inventing the Future: Plots and Stories' forum in Russia, highlighting the need for more Africans to tell their stories through cinema. She believes that while Africa has a wealth of cultural narratives and a strong cinema tradition, the challenges of circulation and distribution have hampered its global visibility. Mandefro references celebrated Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety to underline the importance of African storytelling and its potential.
