The Creative Equity Scholarship Fund for Africa (CESF) will
provide financial assistance to Africa’s future generation of storytellers.
Netflix has
announced the extension of its Netflix Creative Equity Scholarship Fund (CESF) to film and
television students in the West and Central
Africa region. Applications are now open for students to apply to study
at institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and Gabon.
Netflix’s
global Netflix
Creative Equity Fund, which was launched in 2021 and will be
distributed to various initiatives over the next five years with the goal of
building a strong, diverse pipeline of creatives around the world, includes a
US$1 million scholarship fund for students from Sub-Saharan Africa. The
scholarship fund will cover tuition, housing, study materials, and living expenses
at selected partner schools in Nigeria where beneficiaries have been
accepted to pursue a programme of study in the television and film disciplines
in the 2022/2023 academic year.
The Netflix
CESF is set to launch across the region in the academic year beginning in 2022,
and Netflix will partner with Dalberg as an
implementation partner and fund administrator in the West and Central
Africa region.
How it works:
The Netflix
CESF is intended to provide financial aid in the form of full scholarships at
partner higher educational institutions in Nigeria, Benin, Ghana and Gabon to help ambitious creatives from West and Central African
countries obtain official qualifications and training. The following countries in West and Central Africa
will be eligible: Benin,
Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte D’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,
Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.
The fund will be available to students who have obtained admission
to study in various film & TV-focused disciplines, for the 2022 academic
year, at the following partner institutions:
● Institut
Philippe Maury de l’audiovisuel et du Cinéma (IPMAC-Groupe EM
GABON-UNIVERSITE), Gabon
● Institut Supérieur des Métiers de l’Audiovisuel
(ISMA) (Bénin)
● National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI),
Ghana
● National Film Institute Jos, Nigeria
● Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria
Applications
are now open via the LINK HERE until the 9th of September 2022 at 23:59 PM
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