NFVF, TikTok award $60k to creators

The National Film & Video Foundation (NFVF) of South Africa and social networking service TikTok have selected the 20 creators who will receive a total of ZAR860,000 (US$60,000) under their Rising Voices initiative.

This follows the first edition of the six-week Rising Voices incubator programme, which aimed to help creators upgrade their skills for content creation.

The financial support will be accompanied by mentorship including content advice, conceptualising support and 10 pieces of content curation for their individual TikTok pages.

Makhosazana Khanyile, CEO of NFVF, said: “The NFVF is proud to have been chosen to partner TikTok on this groundbreaking initiative. The opportunity to mold young content creators into future entrepreneurs who will learn to take advantage of all forms of media and monetise their ideas is one we were happy to support. Congratulations to all the young people that were chosen to take part and we look forward to future collaborations.

“They came! They saw! They created, and continue to create amazing voices. We are proud to have supported TikTok and want to say ‘heita hola’ to the amazing Rising Voices Class of 2021! Now is the time to show the world what you are made of. Congratulations to the 20 Rising Voices grant recipients, who will receive a cash grant of about ZAR860,000 in total.”

As part of the Rising Voices initiative, the selected creators will be tasked with creating a series of paid content and will be given a one-on-one mentoring session to analyse their content plan.

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