LFA alumni Vanessa Ford has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek this month to celebrate her pioneering YouTube Originals series ‘Super Sema’. The article expands on the explosion of African-led TV and film, in recent years, and how the monumental success of Disney’s ‘Black Panther’ in 2018 paved the way for diverse and educational series like ‘Super Sema’ to gain the backing of big names and big budgets within the mainstream industry.
Vanessa, who is also the co-founder of Nairboi based start-up Kukua Education Ltd., shares her ambition with Bloomberg:
At LFA, our filmmakers learn the value of developing and honing a unique voice alongside their creative vision, harnessing the power of storytelling in an impactful way. Paying adoration to lead character Sema, a female superhero with courage and empathy as her key superpowers, Vanessa’s vision is a fantastic example of this value in practice; as she poignantly reconstructs the status quo of a male-dominated industry.
Nadine Zylstra, who oversees family programming at YouTube Originals, says:
Read the Bloomberg article here.