Disney has confirmed plans to premiere an African animation series titled “Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire”, a 10-part sci-fi anthology created by up-and-coming filmmakers from Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt.
The movie which is executive produced by Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse co-director Peter Ramsey, will seek to answer the question “What does Africa’s future look like from an African perspective?”
Here is a list of the projects, creators and official synopsis released by Disney.
Stardust (Ahmed Teilab – Egypt)
After receiving a blank scroll of destiny from the Oracle during her coming-of-age ceremony, Nawara, a rebellious stable girl, sets off on a perilous journey to track him down, and demand the kind of future she knows she deserves.
Mkhuzi: The Masked Racer (Simangaliso ‘Panda’ Sibaya and Malcolm Wope – South Africa)
Manzo is a half-human, half alien boy who must defeat the galaxy’s greatest—and craziest—racers in the Soweto Grand Prix to save his neighbourhood from destruction.
Hatima (Terence Maluleke and Isaac Mogajane – South Africa)
In a future Africa, tribes living on land and beneath the sea fight a constant war for Hatima, a powerful natural resource that causes cellular regeneration and also allows humans to survive beneath the waves.
Enkai (Ng’endo Mukii – Kenya)
Enkai is just a little girl trying to keep her working single mother’s attention, but her mom’s job is more all-consuming than most: she’s a cosmic deity trying to save our planet.
Moremi (Shofela Coker – Nigeria)
A sci-fi riff on a Yoruba myth, this story follows Luo, a spirit boy lost in the realm of the gods, and Moremi, his scientist mother, who is trying to return him to the land of the living.
Surf Sangoma (Nthato Mokgata and Terence Neale – South Africa)
Future Durban is surrounded by a monumental wall to protect the city from colossal waves too deadly to surf, but best friends Njabulo and Mqobi dream of returning to the ocean.
Mukudzei, aka Adventures of Muku (created by Pious Nyenyewa & written by Tafadzwa Hove – Zimbabwe)
After disrespecting a sacred monument, rebellious wannabe-influencer Muku is flung by the spirits into an alternate, utopian and futuristic Zimbabwe that was never colonized.
First Totem Problems (Tshepo Moche – South Africa)
Teenage Sheba is coming of age and determined to receive her digital totem, even if it means taking down the whole ancestral technocracy whilst trying to end an ancient feud.
Herderboy (Raymond Malinga – Uganda)
Determined to prove himself, an unlikely young hero must singlehandedly protect his tribe’s precious herd of cyborg cattle from a deadly spirit monster that threatens their whole way of life.
You Give Me Heart (Lesego Vorster – South Africa)
In the next millennium, when the gods are only as powerful as their social media following, a human nobody strikes up an impossible romance with the most adored goddess of them all.
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