#NAFUNATV Young Zimbabwean film maker, Nqobizitha Mlilo aka Enqore has been named on Google’s list of the top 20 innovative, entrepreneurial web adopters from across sub-Saharan Africa.
Zimbo Jam caught up with the animator and got him to tell us about the whole competition and this is what he said, “Google has a project called Africa Connected where they look for innovators using the power of the internet in their countries.
“I submitted work among 2 200 others and have made it to the semi-finals. Google sent filming teams to shoot mini documentary type videos on the 20. I was interviewed in January this year, 2014. The videos will be out in sometime in March.
“My team and I use Google services in our startup NafunaTV, we run a channel as well as use Google for educational work , that’s what seems to have gotten me this far,” revealed the elated film director.
The competition was launched in August 2013, calling entrepreneurs, creative’s, innovators and web-lovers to share their stories of how the web has transformed their lives and work. The semi-finalists were selected from over 2,200 entries from 35 countries.
“After the top 20 stage, the judges will pick the top people 10 from the list and those 10 are up for public voting. The top five people with the most votes will each win $25 000 each,” added Enqore.
Nqobizitha Mlilo, popularly known as Enqore in the entertainment circles is the Senior Creative Director and Head Animator at Nafuna, a young and vibrant, multi award winning digital agency.
He is known, not only for his music videos that include the Few Kings’ ‘Happy’ and Winky D’s ‘Vashakabvu’ but is also as a part time Hip Hop artist.
He broke into the scene in 2002 after releasing the first animated music video in Zimbabwe for Bulawayo based artist/ promoter Babongile.
He moved to Harare to study and began directing and editing music videos for Zimbabwe’s elite musicians and artists and later commercials, lecturing at workshops, online and at ZIVA, Zimbabwe’s premier design college.
Enqore’s work has taken him to Namibia, South Africa, California and Rwanda where he took on animation, visual effects and lecturing contracts.