CineAI Africa
Creators
African filmmakers and AI artists shaping hybrid cinema
8 creators
Amara Okafor
Lagos-born filmmaker and AI artist pushing the boundaries of Afrofuturist storytelling. Amara combines live actor performances with generative environments to explore identity, memory, and the African digital frontier.
Zara Mensah
Accra-based director, educator, and hybrid film advocate. Zara created the acclaimed short "Kente Dreams" using real Ghanaian dancers composited into AI-generated ancestral realms. She teaches cinematic AI workflows across West Africa.
Kofi Asante
Documentary filmmaker turned hybrid AI storyteller. Kofi focuses on rural Ghana stories — giving voice to communities through AI-enhanced documentary techniques that preserve cultural authenticity while expanding visual scope.
Fatima Diallo
Dakar-based artist whose work merges griot oral tradition with AI-generated worlds. Her film "Griots of the Cosmos" premiered at FESPACO and sparked widespread conversation about AI as a tool for African cultural reclamation.
Nala Mwangi
Nairobi-based filmmaker and VFX artist specializing in hybrid sci-fi with East African aesthetics. Nala's debut feature-length hybrid film "Savanna Protocol" won Best Experimental Film at the Nairobi International Film Festival.
Ibrahim Touré
Abidjan-based music video director and brand content creator. Ibrahim brings the energy of West African urban culture into AI-augmented visuals, crafting futuristic Afrobeats worlds where performers exist in impossible dreamscapes.
Thandiwe Dlamini
Cape Town-based filmmaker exploring township life through an Afrofuturist lens. Thandiwe's hybrid approach uses real performances shot on location in Khayelitsha, extended into otherworldly AI environments that challenge Western sci-fi aesthetics.
Amani Hassan
Addis Ababa-based experimental filmmaker and AI researcher. Amani builds tools specifically for East African filmmakers — including open-source AI pipelines trained on Ethiopian landscapes, faces, and cultural motifs.