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Richard Mofe-Damijo (b. 6 July 1961), popularly known as RMD, is a veteran Nigerian actor, writer, producer, lawyer, and former journalist. His filmography includes The Mayors (2004) for which he won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role; The Wedding Party (2016), and The Black Book (2023), the first-ever Nigerian film to soar to No. 3 on Netflix’s worldwide film charts.

Manouchka Kelly Labouba is a Gabonese director, screenwriter, and producer of short films including the critically acclaimed Marty et la tendre dame, Le guichet automatique, and Le divorce. With the release of Le divorce in 2008 she became the youngest director in the history of Gabon, and the first Gabonese woman to direct a fiction film in the country. She is also an academic, cinematographer, editor, and camera operator. Le divorce can be watched on Cine du Gabon's YouTube Channel.

Thabo Rametsi (b 17 July 1988) is a South African actor and producer. He is best known for his roles in The Giver, The Gamechangers, and Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu, a film based on the life of South African liberation fighter Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu. In Silverton Siege, a 2022 Netflix film, he plays Calvin Khumalo, another real-life anti-apartheid freedom fighter, part of Umkhonto WeSizwe. In June of 2024, Rametsi announced the development of “Imbokodo”, the first of a four-part comic book series in collaboration with Dark Horse Comics.

Hussein Shariffe (7 July 1934 – 21 January 2005) was a Sudanese filmmaker, painter, poet and university lecturer. Once returned to Sudan in the 1970s after years abroad, he worked both at the Ministry of Culture and at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Khartoum. In 1973 he began a second artistic career as filmmaker, producing several documentaries such as The Dislocation of Amber, a film about the historical port of Suakin on the Red Sea coast and Diary in Exile, an account of Sudanese living in exile in Egypt.