Founded in New York City in 2010, with a mission to champion the next generation of African and Middle Eastern storytellers and filmmakers, Cinephilia is a platform that occupies the space between ideation and production and is designed to embody storytelling as a genuine art form by creating a progressive space of inventive possibilities and novel ventures through various initiatives that provide training, mentoring and networking opportunities. Cinephilia's approach to storytelling bridges literature and cinema by focusing on genres such as auteur, cerebral, science fiction, avant-garde poetry, and literary adaptation. Over the past 10 years, Cinephilia has provided film education to over 1200 filmmakers, has incubated over 300 film projects (features, shorts, documentaries, and animation), produced award-winning short films, launched 6 programs supporting film professionals in all stages of their process from inception to distribution, organized film events in more than 30 countries, and provided work opportunities and facilitated collaborations, co-productions and internships to 500+ Cinephilia fellows around the world.
