Moimi Wezam au Creative Producer Indaba 4.

NZONZING primé au FESPACO 2025 / YENNENGA POST-PRODUCTION

Le prix LEYTH PRODUCTION est une bourse importante accordée à un projet de film en post production, sélectionné au YENNENGA POST-PRODUCTION.

Le YENNENGA POST-PRODUCTION est un dispositif initié par le FESPACO afin d’apporter un accompagnement et une aide à la post-production des films d’Afrique et de sa diaspora. Il s’adresse aux réalisateurs(trices) qui sont à leur premier ou deuxième film long métrage (fiction ou documentaire), en phase de finition.

En 2025, huit projets venant du NIGERIA, de l’EGYPTE, du SENEGAL, du TOGO, de la Côte d’Ivoire, du BURKINA-FASO et de la République démocratique du CONGO étaient en compétition.Et le prix LEYTH PRODUCTION 2025 a été accordé au film NZONZING de MOIMI WEZAM de la République démocratique du Congo.

Moimi Wezam au Creative Producer Indaba 4.

The 4th edition of the Creative Producer Indaba (CPI) has selected and announced its 15 participants from Africa.

The CPI is a prestigious industry programme designed to advance the work of independent producers from Africa along with international producers, as it continues to foster collaboration and innovation in film production on the continent.

The selected producers include Moimi Wezam, (DRC). The founder of ZERO ATTITUDE FLIX, he has produced numerous successful short films and achieved significant recognition in the film industry. His documentary ZERO has been broadcast on Amazon Prime Video and has been selected for several film festivals worldwide.

The other selected producers are :

The CPI is hosted by Cape Town-based Realness Institute in collaboration with EAVE, IFFR Pro, and Atlas Workshops. With Projeto Paradiso and Spcine, the programme includes a Brazilian producer interested in African projects. Additionally, support from the Austrian Film Institute, Canada Media Fund, Telefilm, Focal, Jeune Création Francophone, the Mayotte Film Office and Région Réunion enables the participation of Austrian, Canadian, Swiss, and Francophone producers with similar interests.

The CPI programme has been designed by Elias Ribeiro, executive director of Realness, bringing together an inspiring mix of professionals, united by their commitment to creating compelling, diverse, and globally relevant African stories.

The cohort will be guided by group leaders and creative producers Mehret Mandefro and Diana Elbaum, and story consultant and creative producer 2022 alumnus Tracey Lee Rainers.

Some experts mentoring and working with the participants are Sata Cissokho, Constanza Arena, Isioma Idigbe, and Juliane Schulze.

ABETI is supported by DOCUBOX.

ABETI, our film project was honored with the DOCUBOX: The African Documentary Film Fund Award at the 4th edition of the GREAT LAKES CREATIVE PRODUCERS LAB held Kampala (Uganda) from November 4 to 8, 2024.

This award is a big boost for Junior Mozese and Ruben Mayoko, the young and ambitious directors of this documentary film about the story of Abeti – a woman in her forties who is fighting to escape the inhumane conditions in which she currently lives in order to provide a better life for her two daughters and her new-born grandchild.

ABETI is a difficult but very important feature-length documentary in a world where almost everything is going wrong. That’s why our film company ZERO ATTITUDE FLIX is fighting to make it a reality.

The Democratic Republic of Congo was not (initially) invited to this prestigious event for East African producers. We lobbied hard to get in, and our ABETI project won a nice award.

Thanks to the GREAT LAKES CREATIVE PRODUCERS LAB team, the DOCUBOX team, the partners, the mentors and the colleagues.

It’s a wrap for NZONZING. What a crazy film project!

In a world where the greyness of robotics is defined as the only option for the future.

In a world where physical appearance is beginning to count for more than anything else.

In a world where humans are increasingly isolated.

In a Democratic Republic of the Congo where chaos is institutionalized; Lordi Hénoch, Tychique and Andria invent an ingenious business to support themselves and break down borders.

They alone carry the energy of a whole generation abandoned to its own fate but who refuses to capitulate.

Lordi Henoch, Tychic and Andria do not complain. They work, they fail, they laugh, they cry and most of all… they live.

We’ve been working on the documentary film NZONZING since 2019, and we hope it will carry that energy – essence without which a city like Kinshasa would already have lost its incandescent luminescence.

Now it’s time for post-production.