Streaming giant Netflix has today 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 Creative Equity Fund,
launched in 2021 and will be distributed to various initiatives over the next
five years to build a strong, diverse pipeline of creatives around the world,
includes a $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 program of study in the television and film disciplines in
the 2022 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 through 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 (https://bit.ly/3CnPA74)
·
Institut Supérieur des Métiers de l’Audiovisuel (ISMA) (http://w3.ISMA-Benin.org)
·
National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI), Ghana (https://bit.ly/3dPuRyK)
·
National Film Institute Jos, Nigeria (www.NFI.edu.ng)
·
Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria (https://PAU.edu.ng)
Applications
are now open here (https://bit.ly/3cbyy1m)
until the 4th of September 2022 at 23:59 PM
Source: digitaltimes.africa