{"id":230581,"date":"2026-04-17T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-creative-industry-gets-boost-film-and-creative-city-approved\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:10:00","slug":"namibia-creative-industry-gets-boost-film-and-creative-city-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-creative-industry-gets-boost-film-and-creative-city-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Creative Industry Gets Boost &#8211; Film and Creative City Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Namibia&#8217;s creative industry is gaining traction, with increased film activity creating jobs and bringing new income into the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said in her state of the nation address that, between April 2025 and March 2026, Namibia attracted 59 foreign film projects, while local filmmakers produced 36 films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">&#8220;These activities created 1 240 temporary jobs in catering, transportation, hospitality, crew, cast and producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170419.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia&#8217;s creative industry is gaining traction, with increased film activity creating jobs and bringing new income into the economy. President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said in her state of the nation address that, between April 2025 and March 2026, Namibia attracted 59 foreign film projects, while local filmmakers produced 36 films. &#8220;These activities created 1 240 temporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,16152,6557,6603,12150,7824,8317,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-230581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approved","tag-boost","tag-city","tag-creative","tag-film","tag-industry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}