Digital Africa

A film by Elke Sasse and Bettina Haasen, 52 min, arte 2018
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“Digital Africa” is a crossmedial journey (webseries + movie) that is turning the oldfashioned European picture of Africa. It´s a trip through a continent with glasfibre internet access and a creative start-up scene that comes up with technical ideas, useful across the world.

Web-Video-Serie (6 x 3‘)

Africans present innovative ideas from their continent. Animation artist Ebele Okoye/Shrinkfish “transports” them to Europe in a humorous way.

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