This new show rooted in Africa will take viewers on a journey into Africa’s future.
Egyptian actress May Elghety has joined the cast of Disney’s upcoming animated sci-fi series, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire.
Additionally, Egyptian director Ahmed Teilab has joined the series’ writing and directing team, which features a slew of African artists.
With its premiere scheduled for 2023, the Disney+ Original is a 10-part anthology that tells futuristic stories based on Africa’s rich cultural heritage.
The animation creators picked an African perspective to imagine new worlds with advanced technology, aliens, spirits, and monsters, stories that touch on other worlds, and time travel to be seen through an African lens.
This animated anthology brings together a new generation of animation stars and creators from Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt, who will offer their ideas to take viewers across the globe on a wild voyage into Africa’s future.
Peter Ramsey, Oscar winner, Tendayi Nyeke and Anthony Silverston serve as executive producers. Triggerfish is the lead studio, teaming with animation studios globally and across the continent.
The sci-fi series features a cast from across the globe and includes the voices of Florence Kasumba, Kehinde Bankole, Pearl Thusi, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Sheila Munyiva, Stycie Waweru, Candice Modiselle, Lillian Dube, Clementine Mosimane, and Mandisa Nduna, as well as comedians Tumi Morake, Sne Dladla and Tyson Ngubeni and rappers Nasty C and Gigi Lamayne.
