African Women Action

A.W.A. is an introductory, discovery and acceleration program for careers in the audiovisual industry, entirely dedicated to women.

Learning how to use emerging technologies and artificial intelligence that are reshaping the industry, experiencing the movie theater for the first time, participating in professional screenwriting residencies, growing through mentorship from industry leaders, and gaining hands-on experience through internships and on-set immersions are among the flagship opportunities offered by AWA. A movement that empowers women to dare, create and lead !

AWA programme participants

100 women. 10 countries.
One vision

Connect, empower, and reveal a new generation of African female creators ready to transform their dreams into industrial reality.

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Our Vision

This training program aims to foster a new generation of autonomous African women creators by equipping them with key skills to tell, produce, and disseminate powerful stories through images. Drawing on a hybrid pedagogy, it combines creativity, technical expertise, and leadership to amplify the voices of young African women in the audiovisual industries.

Our Mission

To access, connect, and support 100 female creators per year across Africa and its diaspora, by giving them the necessary tools, skills, and networks to transform their ideas into viable, exportable, and sustainable projects.

We don't just train artists.

We reveal industry builders.

Join us in writing the story of the African content revolution.

Together, let's turn the dream into industrial reality.

Africa has stories to tell the world.

Let's empower him to do so.

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Our Training Courses

Our Partners

AWA is supported by institutions, brands, and investors who are convinced that creative women are the driving force of a new African economy.

Mastercard Foundation

Digital Opportunity Trust

Quantum Studios

Grow Academy

The vision becomes reality

Africa has stories waiting to be shared with the world: powerful, universal narratives that inspire the next generations.

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«The time has come to build, together, a sustainable creative industry, where African creators – and women in particular – become leaders on the global stage.»

Pamela Bamby Diop

AWA - African Women Action

We are building the future of African creativity
— one woman, one story, one generation at a time.

Join us to write the story of the African content revolution.

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