Scripted and Unscripted content for Africa and beyond

New releases

Title: Do Your Worst

Genre: Comedy
Director : Samantha Nell
Cast : Shannon Esra, Kate Liquorish, Wayne Van Rooyen
Length: 91″
Country: South Africa
Status: Completed
Release Year: 2023
Languages: English
Max Format Available: UHD (4k)

Title: African America

Genre: Drama
Length: 97″
Country: South Africa
Status: Completed
Release Year: 2021
Languages: English
Max Format Available: UHD (4k)
Available Territories: None till 2023
Sold to date : Netflix Worldwide

Title: Listing Jozi

One Line: This is how they hustle, this is how they wheel & deal. This is Listing Jozi
Genre: Reality Show – Upmarket Real Estate
Length (episode): 48″
Number of episodes: 6
Country: South Africa
Status: Completed
Completed: 2021
Languages: English
Max Format Available: UHD (4k)
Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa
Sold to date : BBC Africa, Netflix Africa

Title: Knuckle City

Director: Jamil XT Qubeka
Genre: Drama/Action
Length: 94”
Country: SOUTH AFRICA
Status: Completed
Release Year: 2020
Languages in film: Xhosa, English
Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa and North America
Sold to Date : Showtime USA, Netflix
Festivals : TIFF

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Feature films

Title: Uncovered

Director: Zuko Nodada
Genre: Political Thriller
Length: 94”
Country: SOUTH AFRICA
Status: Completed
Release Year: 2019
Languages in film: English, ZULU
Available Territories: None till 2022
Sold to Date : Netflix Worldwide

Title: Loving Vincent

Director: Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
Genre: Animation
Length: 94”
Country: Poland/UK
Status: Completed
Release Year: 2017
Languages in film: English
Available Territories: None till 2022
Released in Cinema South Africa : 2019
Sold to Date : DSTV Africa

Title: The Healer

Director : Paco Arango
Genre : Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Length : 113”
Country : Spain | USA | Canada
Status : Completed
ZA Release Year : 2018
Languages : English
Available Territories : None till 2022
Released in Cinema South Africa : 2019
Sold to Date : Netflix Africa

TV Series

TV – UNSCRIPTED

Title: Diamonds & Dolls

One Line: “We are just trying to make a living. Please don’t judge us.”
Genre: Reality
Length (episode): 48 mins
Number of episodes: 6
Country: South Africa
Status: In Post Production
Completed: TBC
Languages: English/Vernac
Max Format Available: HD
Available Territories: Worldwide

Title: Slope Slap

One Line: The Sexiest Sub-Zero Challenge in the World
Genre: Game Show
Length (episode): 24 mins
Number of episodes: 13 episodes
Country: South Africa / USA
Status:  Completed
Completed: 2020
Languages: English
Max Format Available: UHD (4K)
Available Territories: Worldwide except Africa
Sold to Date : Netflix Africa

Title: You’ve Been Had: Celebrity Edition

One Line: Hollywood celebrities prank their fans
Genre: Celebrity Prank Show
Length (episode): 24 mins
Number of episodes: 11 episodes
Country: USA
Status: Completed
Completed: 2020
Languages: English
Max Format Available: UHD (4K)
Available Territories: Worldwide

Title: Proof

One Line: Question what you think you know
Genre: Supernatural / Paranormal Investigative
Length (episode): 24 mins
Number of episodes: 13 episodes
Country: USA
Status: Completed
Completed: 2020
Languages: English
Max Format Available: HD
Available Territories: Worldwide except Canada

Title: Ring of Champions

One Line: Heroes are made at home, and in the ring
Genre: Sports Doccie Series
Length (episode): 24 mins
Number of episodes: 13 episodes
Country: USA
Status: Completed
Completed: 2020
Languages: English/Various European (Subtitled)
Max Format Available: UHD (4K)
Available Territories: Worldwide

TV – SCRIPTED

Title: JAB

Genre: Sports Drama Series
Length: 24”
Number of episodes: 13
Country: South Africa
Status: Season 1 completed
Completed: 2016
Language: English/Xhosa
Availability: Worldwide except Africa
Sold to Date : Netflix Africa

Post Production SERVICES

AAA POST PRODUCTION

  • Offline edting (TV & Film)
  • Online editing
  • Assistant editing
  • D.I.T.
  • Data Wrangling
  • Transcoding
  • Q.C.

More POST PRODUCTION

  • Delivery prep (Netflix, Amazon, etc.)
  • Grading/Colouring,
  • Subtitles and closed captioning
  • IMF Delivery to NetFlix

About us

VISION
To be the world’s leading sales and distribution company and enable African content to have the largest global audience and distribution.

MISSION
To assist African content creators to develop, produce and deliver at the best possible standards for the local and global market demand, in order for us to deliver the best quality content and projects to our global network of buyers and investors.

AAA Entertainment is one of the few all round African sales and distribution companies, that both exports African content to the world market, as well distributes content within Africa to all linear and non-linear platforms and theatrical outlets. We understand the African market and audiences, as well as the indigenous artists and engineers of African content and IP, and AAA Entertainment works to maximise the synergy between these two.

AAA Entertainment is one of the few Netflix content partners in Africa and also works with several global aggregators and distributors for the biggest digital content platforms like Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, Hulu, Sony, X Box and Vudu to name a few.

Based on the belief that this continent is brimming with great stories and talent, that present the African film and television industry with a new opportunity in high production value, AAA looks to reach a global audience with indigenous stories by ensuring the best quality in every step of the value chain.

Our Services Include

  • Sales of feature films, scripted and unscripted television series, TV formats, short films
    Distribution of films and television content within the continent of Africa
  • Packaging of content; including posters, trailers, websites, social media marketing and activations
  • Executive production and production of local and international projects looking to shoot or do post production in South Africa.
  • Access and facilitate various co-production incentives and funds for eligible productions
  • Developing and co-developing IP and packages of film and television projects

MAYENZEKE BAZA

Head of Distribution and Financing

Mayenzeke left a successful career in engineering and property management to produce, and more recently distribute and finance, local and international films for the past 15 years. He co-founded AAA Entertainment in 2014 and is the current CEO and Head of distribution and financing. Mayenzeke serves as an advisor to several organisations, key decision makers and stakeholders, and served on the boards of the DFA, ATFT (co-founded), IBFC and SASFED.


ADV. MAWANDE SETI-BAZA

Chairperson/ Co-Founder/ Head of Legal & IP

Adv. Mawande Seti Baza holds a LLB and LLM (Communications Law) degrees and is currently is practicing as an advocate at the Pan African Bar Association of South Africa (PABASA). She is the former Policy and Legal Advisor for the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) and possesses vast experience in policy development in the film industry that spans over 8 years. Her role as the Policy and Legal Advisor included film policy development, contractual management, and legal compliance. Her areas of expertise are in Media Law, Broadcasting Law, Intellectual Property (specifically copyright law), Commercial Law, and Entertainment Law.

In 2014 she co-founded AAA Entertainment with her husband Mayenzeke Baza and his business partner Pascal Schmitz, and overlooks all the legal and IP matters at AAA Entertainment, as well as drives stakeholder relations and corporate strategy.


PASCAL SCHMITZ

Head of Development and Production

Pascal has been working in the film and television industry since 1996 in various roles including producer of 2 feature films and 2 documentaries. Having spent many years on the festival and market circuit where he met Mayenzeke Baza and joined forces to found South African Indies and establish AAA-Entertainment, a distribution company that supplies the market with  quality film and television content for and from Africa…


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