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\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> U.S.-based producer Autumn Bailey-Ford<\/a> (Tulsa<\/em>) and Simo Kubheka and Damien Brown of the South African-based NV Film Studios and Services have partnered to launch AfriNova Entertainment Group<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe group said the new company will aim to bridge \u201cAfrican and international storytelling through innovative entertainment partnerships.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBailey-Ford, Kubheka, and Brown have said the company\u2019s main focus will be international film and television production, co-productions between Africa and global markets, talent development and creative partnerships, distribution and financing opportunities, and culturally impactful storytelling with worldwide appeal.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAfriNova Entertainment Group was created to build bridges through storytelling,\u201d Bailey-Ford said in a statement. \u201cOur vision is to create powerful content that not only entertains audiences around the world but also creates sustainable opportunities for filmmakers, talent, and creative professionals across Africa and beyond.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tShe added that the company will aim to open new doors as \u201can international production house, with centres in the United States and Africa, which we all call home.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tKubheka added: \u201cThis is a new era of African film production at a global level. The combination of Autumn\u2019s creative talents, paired with our locations\u2019 natural wonders, plus the biggest film studio in Africa, forms a unique opportunity to show what it means to be \u2018Made in Africa\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tNV Film Studios launched in 2023. The facility is based at Lourensford Estate, around 40km from Cape Town International Airport, with 118,000 sq ft of stage space. NV Film Services is the company\u2019s production service arm. Bailey-Ford is a producer with credits such as Netflix\u2019s forthcoming Color Book<\/em> and Blackbear<\/em> (2019).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE: U.S.-based producer Autumn Bailey-Ford (Tulsa) and Simo Kubheka and Damien Brown of the South African-based NV Film Studios and Services have partnered to launch AfriNova Entertainment Group.\u00a0 The group said the new company will aim to bridge \u201cAfrican and international storytelling through innovative entertainment partnerships.\u201d\u00a0 Bailey-Ford, Kubheka, and Brown have said the company\u2019s main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2463447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[484572,484573],"class_list":["post-2463446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-afrinova-entertainment-group","tag-autumn-bailey-ford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Autumn-Bailey-Ford-Launches-AfriNova-Entertainment-Group.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463446","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=2463446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463448,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463446\/revisions\/2463448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}