How the KOSINIMA, Inc. fund is opening doors for Black womxn creatives
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Oluwaseun Babalola's professional work aims to: one, celebrate Black identity using film, television, and digital media, and two, build sustainable outlets and funding for Black media professionals.
She's worked as a producer on television series such as the Emmy-nominated United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell (CNN), Africa Everywhere (The Africa Channel), Streets of Dreams (CNBC), and the feature documentaries, Trichster, Picture A Scientist (PBS, Netflix), and Frederick Douglass In Five Speeches (HBO). She is also founder and executive director of KOSINIMA, a non-profit organization created to support emerging Black creatives with funding, networking, and creative resources. This includes creating and directing ṢOJU, a media platform that uses film and photography to document and celebrate identity in African youth culture.
shado caught up with documentary filmmaker Oluwaseun Babalola to talk more about her aims, process, motivations and, in particular, how she use her film series ṢOJU as a platform for self-narration in order to challenge the stereotypes associated with the African continent. My name is Oluwaseun Babalola, people call me...
