{"id":2313542,"date":"2026-03-05T08:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2313542"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:06:29","slug":"both-worlds-freeli-films-launch-first-u-s-africa-co-production-partnership-for-microdramas-with-taye-diggs-set-to-star-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/both-worlds-freeli-films-launch-first-u-s-africa-co-production-partnership-for-microdramas-with-taye-diggs-set-to-star-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Worlds, Freeli Films Launch First U.S.-Africa Co-Production Partnership for Microdramas, With Taye Diggs Set to Star (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">International Emmy-nominated South African production company Both Worlds and Atlanta-based outfit <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0983813\/\">Freeli Films<\/a> have launched a co-production partnership to develop and produce premium microdrama series and feature films, the companies announced at the Joburg Film Festival on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The productions will be shot in South Africa and across the continent, as well as in the U.S., with the companies saying in a statement that their content will be \u201cdesigned first and foremost for South African, broader African and American audiences, and from there, for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004875\/\">Taye Diggs<\/a> \u2014 who previously collaborated with Freeli on the upcoming romantic drama \u201cAnother&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Emmy-nominated South African production company Both Worlds and Atlanta-based outfit Freeli Films have launched a co-production partnership to develop and produce premium microdrama series and feature films, the companies announced at the Joburg Film Festival on Thursday. The productions will be shot in South Africa and across the continent, as well as in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2313543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2313542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Both-Worlds-Freeli-Films-Launch-First-US-Africa-Co-Production-Partnership-for.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313544,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313542\/revisions\/2313544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}