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Solutions Storytelling Project: Africa

A collaborative storytelling fellowship that connects regional filmmakers and social innovators in Africa (2023) to produce solutions-focused short documentaries that catalyze positive change.

The Films

The Filmmakers

The Organizations

SSP Overview

SSP Africa 2023

The Filmmakers

Hailing from Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Somalia, Nigeria, and the DRC:

The Organizations

Social innovators working to solve some of Africa's most pressing issues:

Program Support

Made possible by the Skoll Foundation

This program was built as a collaborative effort between the Skoll Foundation and the Video Consortium, and is guided by one of the Foundation’s guiding principles: “We trust those closest to the challenge to lead the change. We aim to support those most proximate to the problems, those crafting solutions in close partnership with the communities most impacted."

Program Support

In Partnership with Docubox

Docubox is the East African Documentary Film Fund that exists to enable talented, driven, focused and accountable East African artists to produce unique films that unearth new realities and cross trans-national boundaries.

True stories. Real solutions.

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Cover photo by Thomas Bennie.

The Video Consortium ® is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that connects and supports today's nonfiction filmmakers and video journalists to tell bold stories that change the world. (EIN: 81-1686368)

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