Last Mile Film Fund Champions

In the short film Super Detectives, Ivan and his imaginary friend, Detective Zulu spend whatever free time they’ve got doing what they love most, playing detective games with Ivan’s father, Patrick.

Citizen Kwame is a conceptual film about travel visas and the well-known struggles of travelling while Black or African. 

Love Sweet Sound is a short film about a recently blind woman who learns to adjust with her handicap. 

Mzigo is a pan African love story that seeks to raise awareness about sickle cell disease, a modern day family story that portrays the highs and lows of living with the disease, the effect it has on loved ones and the challenges they go through. 

Upington, South Africa - 2013. Fire burns Katriena Esau’s N/uu school. She calls it the day fire burnt the language of her soul. But the burning of her school is not the first time her language was silenced. 

Two Kenyan college students, Joy, and Susan, arrive at an upcountry lodge in response to an advert for job vacancies. 

What is it like being a young person in Nigeria, where being put under the microscope of cyber-crime has become a defining narrative? 

The Native Question explores race, identity, and memory through the story of Tara’s upbringing as a mixed race South African Indian woman of Canadian and British descent. 

Money, Freedom, A Story of CFA Franc uses economics and money to explore France’s colonial legacy in Africa.

6SENSE tells the story of Mxshi Mo, a young man from Kwa-Zulu Natal, who, whilst dealing with the gradual decline into blindness, finds his hidden talent in Gqom music production - shining a light on a potential path out of his own personal darkness.

In Sync is a short film about the practical use cases of Artificial Intelligence in communities in Eastern Uganda.