Netflix to give $400,000 Towards empowering Black Creatives

Netflix, the world’s leading entertainment streaming service  announced a commitment of $400 000 USD in the form of a grant and creation of scholarships to extend the support for Black representation in the Film & TV industry to the creative ecosystem in South Africa.

The Netflix Black Creatives Empowerment Fund will be implemented in a two-pronged approach: the first being a $100,000 grant in benefit of The Independent Black Filmmakers Collective  NPC (IBFC)

With the second being $300,000 designated towards funding full scholarships at higher education institutions in South Africa to support the formal qualification and training of aspiring Black creatives in the film and TV disciplines.

The Goal of the fund is to:
Create and promote more opportunities and training for people from underrepresented Black communities in South Africa to enter and succeed in the film and TV industry.

Provide Black filmmakers with access to scarce funding required to create screen productions in South Africa.

Support organizations that are involved in bespoke programmes geared towards identifying, training and/or providing creative opportunities for members of the Black community in South Africa’s film and TV industry.

Netflix has chosen a two-pronged approach for achieving the goals set out above:
$100,000 grant in benefit of The Independent Black Filmmakers Collective (IBFC) .
IBFC is a collaborative business to business network and advocacy group formed in 2017 by wholly black-owned South African film and television companies, representing filmmakers, content creators, film and television/commercials directors, producers, marketers, facilities and services industrialists and entrepreneurs.

S.I/All Africa