Four African episodic screenwriters will take the stage Tuesday at Series Mania to pitch the genre-flavored series they currently have in development, a crop of shows that reflect the rich and fert…
to pitch the genre-flavored series they currently have in development, a crop of shows that reflect the rich and fertile landscape for African series creators looking to tap into the global TV market.
The four creators have each developed a bible and a pilot episode that they’ll be presenting to potential partners and financiers March 21 at 3:30pm. “StoryBoard is convinced of the power TV series have in shaping new cultural narratives, as well as bringing politically and geographically diverse people together,” said StoryBoard Collective founder David Rimer. “We believe that broadening the funding sources for these talented scriptwriters will increase the chances of powerful and authentic TV series to be produced.”
“Enkop” is set against the backdrop of the real-life violence that erupts in Kenya’s rugged Laikipia region every election season—violence that the show’s creator described as a legacy of decades of historical land injustice. “I can’t help but see the links between this violence and our colonial history,” said Wamai. “This Western TV series has allowed me to use the country’s ranch land to explore why the past still makes us, as Kenyans, bitter.
“In seeing parallels between this moment in the early ’90s and the global shifts happening now post-pandemic, I wanted to bring a compelling South African crime drama, situated in a historical moment of uncertainty, to an international audience,” she continued.
The show begins when six travelers en route to Ghana suddenly find themselves upgraded to first class, after what appears to be a series of coincidences that was in fact engineered by an enraged local mastermind who goes by the alias of Putsch. He recruits the six travelers in a bold and daring mission: to mount a coup d’etat against the democratically elected government of Ghana, staged just six weeks from the day they land.
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