About Emmanuelle L.

Bilingual french/english multimedia reporter based in Dakar, Senegal with 10 years experience in print, TV and radio working for BBC, Radio France International, France 24, and Gulf News (Dubai).

About Gaius K.

Gaïus Kowene is a proactive multimedia journalist and panafrican Web activist based in Goma, eastern Congo DRC, travelling accross the continent to tell stories of ordinary people with extraordinary achievements.

About Wilfred A.

Afrinity Productions is a Pan-African specialist one stop shop interactive media, event and content management. We have mastered the art of creating fantastic formats and turning them into exciting experiences on media touch points like Television, Radio, Mobile, Internet and Print. We provide brands and advertisers with unique value added cost saving brand building & advertising windows to connect with target markets in a meaningful, significant & sustainable way. Our Media house produces feature stories, series programs, documentaries, films and photography. We have also established partnerships with top media organizations from around the globe, which provide us with the finest video and still material available anywhere. Our ability to provide quality professionals for any kind of video or photography venture in Africa makes Afrinity Productions a unique media organization. With products designed specifically for mobile distribution, websites, publications, as well as a variety of TV formats, Afrinity Productions enables broadcaster, media agencies, mobile phone providers, corporate markets and freelance journalists to see what content is available and how to acquire it quickly and easily. We identify what is new in the marketplace as well as how to locate specific visual gems to make your production special. This keeps us in the frontline all times. With seasoned professional staff and relationships with some of the finest international television individuals, Afrinity Productions also provides quality training in disciplines ranging from television production to management, personal brand building to Pan-African storytelling. Broadcast Partnership We can create programs for your audience and/or give you ready made content that include: Short Features, Series program, Soaps and Drama, Documentaries and much more. This can give you a return on investments after you have aired it on your channel.

About Selim H.

SELIM HARBI: Transmedia storyteller, videographer, and cinematographer, and award-wining director graduated Bachelor of Art in Audiovisual Media at Beuth University of applied sciences in Berlin. He worked as assistant director on THE ENEMY a journalistic VR-Experience around war and empathy. Multimedia grant recipient of the prestigious WORLD PRESS PHOTO to produce „Zatla Blues“. Focused on contemporary African and human displacement issues. Good ground experience and flexibility with a special fair for tech-trends and experimentation, he is a sensitive and all-rounded shooter, as he is perpetually developing new generative media concepts and cutting-edge projects.

About Julien F.

I'm a video director from Paris (France) who lives in Dakar (Senegal). I work mainly with international organizations and corporations for the production of reports. I'm also photograph and I work essentially with digital camera like Sony A7III and drone Mavic Pro. I can achieve a full project by myself (filming and post production).

About Mbar D.

Mbar Diop is a fixer, interpreter, professional photographer (journalistic, corporate, documentary) and news assistant based in Dakar. He has wide experience working with mainstream news organizations including CNN, The Economist, ARD and VOA. Mbar is a multi-media specialist, assisting journalists gather news for WEB, TV, print, and radio. He combines a passion and professionalism in his work. Clients describe him as hard-working and resourceful, with a large contact list at his disposal.

About Maya H.

Hi! I'm an American/French photographer based in Dakar, Senegal. I love covering news and creative topics.

About Helene R.

I am a French filmmaker and video journalist, from the « Centre de formation des journalistes » (CFJ) in Paris. I directed and filmed several long-format documentaries in remote places all over the world to relay human stories about exile and migrations, themes near to my heart (she made stories in Sudan, Iraq, Gabon, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, India, Martinique island, France, Malawi). Long format documentaries 2019 : « Women warriors », Al-Jazeera / « From Seine-Saint-Denis to Amazonia » (French high school students from poor suburbs who went to French Guyana to open their eyes to the world), France Ô 2018 : « L’appel », France 2 (Story of a French missionary and nurse during Mosul’s final battle) 2017 : « La famille de la jungle », France 2 (Story of a family who takes care of orphan gorillas in the middle of the jungle in Gabon) 2016 : « La loi de la jungle », France 2 (Story of migrants in Calais who try to catch the train and their dreams for England) 2015 : Documentary about sex-traffic trade in Martinique island, ATV TV channel 2014 : « No Maasaï land », France Ô (Maasaï people evicted in North-Tanzania)

About Arwa B.

My name is Arwa Barkallah and I have been producing, reporting for the BBC for the past 4 years. As a VJ, I am having fun filming short digital videos, explainers, portraits.

About Alpha Sadou G.

I worked in film and television industry since 2000 as Cameraman, Director, Fixer and Production Manager. With this job I met many wonderful people around 17 countries in Africa, Europe, China and Latina America. I'm really interested to work with many companies in interesting projects. I speak French and English. Let's make it possible!

About MOMODOU J.

Momodou L Jaiteh, is a Gambian-born multimedia journalist, researcher and founder of Kaba Communications, a production company registered in Banjul, The Gambia. Until last October, Mr. Jaiteh was a staff member of the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC), the body tasked with drafting Gambia’s new supreme law serving as one of the Note takers/Transcribers. He is a professional journalist with a background on multimedia and progressively working in the media since June 1994 at different levels in the Gambia and abroad. Currently, Jaiteh is the Gambian representative of the Dakar-based Pan African News Agency (www.panapress.com), a continental wire service publishing in: English, French, Arabic and Portuguese. He does international freelance reporting job for Bhekisisa Mail and Guardian (http://bhekisisa.org) based in South Africa and the humanitarian news agency formerly known as IRIN News (http://www.irinnews.org). Prior to this, Jaiteh worked in Dakar, Senegal for the Pan African Radio, Convergence FM as Senior English Program Producer as well as a Senior Program Producer for Radio Alternative Voice for Gambians which was a project implemented by former exiled Gambian journalists in Dakar, Senegal. Meanwhile, before taking up international assignments, Jaiteh first started off with local newspapers like The Point and Daily Observer as a reporter and rising to the rank of editor at Point Newspaper. He was the correspondent for Associated Press (AP), an American news wire, as well as Pan African News Agency in The Gambia from 2000 to 2007 when he was forced into exile in neighboring Senegal because of his work. Jaiteh has also engaged on human rights activism since 2000 with special interest on: Media Freedom, Freedom of Expression, Consumerism, Peace, gender and child rights issues. As rights activists, he worked with sub-regional bodies like the Ghana-based Media Foundation for West Africa and Dakar-based rights body, FAMDEV among others. He is also a consumer rights activist and the current Secretary General of Gambia's Consumer Protection Consortium, the apex consumer rights body in the West African nation. Jaiteh covered several meetings held both locally and internationally in Africa, Europe, Asia and other continents of the world.

About Hugo B.

Audio Visual Journalist based in Dakar, Senegal. Mainly works for Al Jazeera English as a producing shoot-edit in West-Africa. Other clients include: Reuters TV, AFP, CNN. Has a background in working as a VJ (one-man-band).

About Albouri N.

Brooklyn, NY born filmmaker, currently living in Dakar, Senegal.

About Marta M.

I am a documentary photographer, videographer and journalist based in Dakar, Senegal. I write for Spanish media and I shoot photographs and video-documentaries for international media and NGO's. I am especially focused on gender, education, culture, health and enviromental stories. I have skills as a photo and video producer and I can work as a fixer for other journalists visiting and working in Senegal.

About Marcia J.

MARCIA JUZGA Based in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa Marcia Juzga, born on December 25 in Boston, USA. Director and audiovisual artist with over fifteen years of experience in film and television. Graduated with a technical degree in Film and Photography from the Unitec University from Bogotá, Colombia and courses taken in cinematography and documentary in La Havana, Cuba. 2000 - 2004, worked in Los Angeles, California as executive producer for Utopia Films and Ofrenda Films in the realization of TV commercials, music videos and independent films, while travelling through Europe scouting and pitching for customers to develop their advertising projects in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, thus supporting Latin American industry. 2004 - 2006, after the experience gained in advertising, starts directing reality TV-shows for the Hispanic Market and Community in Los Angeles and Houston, working for Channel 61/62 KCRW TV, experience that left lots of initiatives and expectations to pursue a directing career. 2006 - 2009, a self-financed three-year journey touring several Asian countries dedicated to capture and document multiple images (photo, audio and video) from the people and areas visited. 2009 – 2013, Bogotá, Colombia, worked as audiovisual director doing self-promotions for the National TV Station SEÑAL COLOMBIA. Also established a communications group visiting different isolated populations in the country hit by the violence of the inner conflict, supporting the return and restitution of the displaced, founding community radio and TV channels instructing and forming the local people in the basic technical issues so they can manage and produce their own content. Director and documentary researcher in different TV production companies in Colombia, thus participating in national and international programs. Among them, the most important are the documentary TV series "The name of the glory" from CM& and Señal Colombia, the documentary journalism series "Intervention" for A&E TV Channel and BeTV Productions, and her latest documentary "SOUNDS OF SAI" about the state of music production in San Andres island, which was included in several film festivals in Europe and South America. Currently living in Dakar, Senegal, where is dedicated to making documentaries for organizations such as USAID (The U.S Agency for International Development), UNCDF (United Nations Development Fund) , WORLD BANK GROUP, Amnesty International, Save the Children, among others.

About Yehya K.

About Cheikh S.

Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane SY is a young Senegalese director and photographer. Documentary filmmaker and freelance journalist, he has traveled in Africa to produce documentaries and TV magazines dealing with various social and political issues. Chief camera operator, screenwriter and producer:For more than ten years, he has been working in the Cinema and Audiovisual field. He regularly collaborates with agencies such as AP, REUTERS, AFP, DW, CNN among others

About Juliette D.

I am a French broadcast journalist, with 7 years of experience in TV and online media, shooting, editing, and writing news and feature stories. I have spent the last 2.5 years in Kinshasa, DR Congo. Previously, I worked in France and in Italy.

About Asta T.

I am a journalist with over eight years of experience. I have spent the past seven years in Africa working in production and broadcast TV. I have reported and written for CGTN Africa, covering stories in East and West Africa. I am passionate about interacting with cultures and bringing stories to life.