Hyphenate Africa, a subsidiary of Backdoor Films, is a U.S. | Pan-African social impact media production company, redefining African narratives through creative partnerships to empower women and marginalized communities.
Hyphenate Africa brought the Participant Media and Netflix film The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind on a impact tour of southern Africa. Sunshine Cinema with their team of Sunbox Ambassadors share films with communities across Southern Africa using solar powered cinema. -- IMPACT CONSULTANT
Chiwetel Ejiofor Talks "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" and Authenticity
An intimate conversation with Bobi Wine, subject of the powerful documentary "Bobi Wine: The People's President" nominated for an Academy Award. In this fight for liberation, Bobi rose as the unlikely hero to lead a movement in Uganda.
Moderated by Adetoro Makinde, filmmaker and Impact Producer
Presented by Brown Girls Doc Mafia | Backdoor Films | Hyphenate Africa
Expanding the Narrative Voice of African Storytellers through Impact
Inspired by the tragic events caused by police brutality in the post-Apartheid South Africa, this short film is a simple study in shifting power paradigms. Premiered in competition at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. -- ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy Awards, Critically Acclaimed HBO Films’
"The Tale" Premieres in South Africa
Hyphenate Africa produced the premiere and social impact tour in South Africa of Jennifer Fox's acclaimed feature directorial debut, THE TALE. With global movements such as #MeToo, #TimesUp; and the most recent launch of the #MiniMeToo campaign by the Women and Men Against Child Abuse organisation in South Africa, we believed this film is a gateway to a much-needed conversation in South Africa and other parts of the world.” With multiple screenings across the Southern Africa region we are humbled by the film's reception and excited it has become an invaluable tool to NGOs, activists and other practitioners advocating an end to child and gender sexual abuse. IMPACT PRODUCER
"It was my hope to screen in Africa, but I had no idea how to make this happen. What Adetoro Makinde and Bridget Pickering of Hyphenate were able to accomplish was absolutely AMAZING! Of all the countries and impact screenings the film has had, I can honestly say that coming to Africa was special and magical in a way I can't explain."
- Jennifer Fox , Writer and Director
THE TALE
TOMARO: KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
Tomaro is a fishing island just outside the metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria and is not registered on any map. With little in the way of infrastructure, the children are limited to only a primary school education, but the community wants more. This all changes, when the Baale, the traditional leader, meets a visiting teacher from New Jersey and asks her to build them a school. Despite setbacks and government bureaucracy, this short documentary shows their resilience armed with the power of knowledge -- CONSULTING PRODUCER
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“Manifesting a Dream”
Empowering African women is more than an idea when it comes to our mission. Working with collaborators from Georgetown University's Institutional Diversity, Equity & Affirmative Action (IDEAA), Women's Alliance, McDonough School of Business to Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network (DWEN), Hyphenate Africa produced intimate evening of conversation, inspiration, business lectures and more for South African entrepreneur and winemaker, Vivian Kleynhans. Her personal journey began during apartheid to becoming the first Black Woman in South African to own her own wine brand -- just one of the many African stories being brought to the screen. --IMPACT PRODUCER