High Definition Film Studio, Limited
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Grants
2
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Total Awarded
$935,000
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Years
2017 - 2021
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Categories
Grants
2021 (2 years 9 months)
$235,000
Established in 2003, High Definition Film Studio (HDFS) is a Nigerian for-profit company promoting film education and social-change productions. A previous Foundation award to HDFS enabled it to produce a feature-length political thriller on electoral corruption and train a new generation of screenwriters, film producers, and actors committed to anti-corruption and social change. With this final award, HDFS is training and mentoring filmmakers and producing a serialized TV sequel of its political thriller, If I Am President, to educate the public on the cost of corruption in order to catalyze behavior change. The award strengthens the institutional capacity of HDFS through targeted training for senior management, including behavioral tactics, filmmaking for social change, and project management. HDFS coordinates implementation with other Foundation grantees. The award contributes to On Nigeria's overarching goal of reducing corruption and strengthening accountability, transparency, and participation.
2017 (3 years)
$700,000
Established in 2003, High Definition Film Academy is a Nigerian company promoting film education and production for social change. This award enables High Definition to run the Script2Screen program, its flagship annual training, mentoring, and filmmaking project for the next generation of social justice filmmakers across Nigeria. It is training scriptwriters and film producers to develop and produce short films that explore accountability themes. It is organizing film competitions, translating the winning entries into Nigeria’s major languages, and distributing them on television and online to reach millions of Nigerians. The project contributes to On Nigeria’s goal of reducing corruption by building an atmosphere of accountability, transparency, and good governance.
