Idle Worship

Having moved from Angola to South Africa when I was 7 years old and spending 17 years in the country, I could say I’m more South African than Angolan. The great thing though about growing up in South Africa though is that, South Africa is the epicentre of Africa, I like to call it the “African Babylon”. One gets exposed to almost every African culture that it has ended up having quite an influence on my work.

I have tried to take this mindset when I enrolled in Film school in South Africa at the Tshwane University of Technology where I managed to get a B-Tech (honours degree) and majoring in scriptwriting. Although many times I have diverted from my objective of telling African stories, I somehow seem to always come back to it.

This deviation has ended up leading me to a career in the advertising industry where I have been lucky enough to work at quite a few prestigious productions companies such as Ola Films and have been predominately working on thus field when I got back home in Angola in 2018.

Having faced many challenges while coming back to a less developed film industry in Angola in comparison to South Africa’s film industry, I have come full circle to my initial flicker that has gotten me into storytelling; which is to tell African stories.

As I have honed my voice, I have come to realize that this is my purpose and what I will fight for. I believe that we as African filmmakers should show how beautiful our African culture is. Make the rest of the world adore and praise our African culture the way Hollywood has done it.

So I aim to always show Africans as authentically as I can be it in Advertising, Music Videos or fiction.