(BPRW) African Media Fintech, TBTM Studios, will host its second annual Take Back The Mic (TBTM) Interactive Festival on 11-12 November | press releases

(BPRW) African Media Fintech, TBTM Studios, will host its second annual Take Back The Mic (TBTM) Interactive Festival on 11-12 November

This free Global Interactive Festival will stream around the world from the City of the Future, Dubai

(Black PR Wire) TBTM Studios will host its second annual Take Back The Mic (TBTM) Interactive Festival 11-12. Novemberth.

This global interactive festival will stream around the world from the city of the future, Dubai. Fans can watch the festivities for free on tbtm.app.

Last year, the award-winning African Media Fintech, TBTM Studios, presented the first TBTM Interactive Festival, highlighting the theme of Connecting the Continents, Connecting the Culture. Featured speakers included Dr. Deepak Chopra, Aja Naomi King, Mustafa Shakir, Baratunde Thurston and thought leaders across Business, Tech, Impact, Media & Entertainment and fashion streaming from around the world.

This year, the virtual festival returns with the theme Remixing the Renaissance: Culture and Technology in the New Global South and a brand new list of powerful leaders in their fields. The Day 1 theme is “Power Moves”, highlighting leading minds in technology, business, sport and culture from across the global south and diaspora. Founding managing partner of MaC Venture Capital, Marlon Nichols; Ghanian Olympian and record holder, Nadia Eke; Raphael EdwardsFounder and head coach of the dynamic Basketball Africa League (BAL) team Cape Town Tigers; and Nana-Yaw Asamoah, NFL Senior Vice President, are just some of the exceptional voices lending their talents and conversations to this year’s festival.

In addition, the festival will feature shorts and music videos from the 10 African filmmakers from Season 3 of TBTM Studios’ award-winning series The microphone: Africa, 8 out of 10 of them women. Meanwhile, TBTM Studios COO and Frpioneering Ethiopian media executive Mehret Mandefrowill deliver a powerful keynote speech on November 11th entitled, Remixing the Renaissance: The New Age of Enlightenment.

The Day Two theme, “Pass the Torch”, will feature comments from “the Generation that will Save the World” – from the renowned Nigerian youth filmmakers, The critics to Kenyan global climate activist Dorcas Wakio. The second day will culminate in an exhibition of the artist profiles of five finalists from The microphone: Africa‘s season 3 and several short films from African female filmmakers.

This year’s TBTM Interactive Festival, was again Executive Produced in collaboration with Desiree Peterkin Bell, from DPBell & Associates.

Register for the Take Back The Mic Interactive Festival here.

About TBTM Studios

Two-time Emmy-nominated TBTM (Take Back the Mic) Studios has built the world’s first blockchain-based Media Fintech, transforming Culture into Currency by rewarding fans and compensating creators for building communities around great content. Their flagship show, the interactive talent competition and docuseries, The microphone: Africa, entering its fourth season, has earned 5 Telly Awards (2 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze), over Netflix, HBO and Disney+, a Murex D’Or Award and a Monaco Streaming Award, as well as 1 billion+ media impressions across world, and a number of Times Square billboards in New York City. TBTM Studios has recently opened its Dubai office, adding to its presence in Hollywood, Buenos Aires and Mauritius, East Africa.