Portal:African cinema/Selected article/23

Florence Kasumba, voice actress for Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire

Triggerfish is a computer animation film studio based in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1996, it is Africa's leading animation company. The studio is known for its animated feature films Adventures in Zambezia (2012), Khumba (2013), and Seal Team (2021) and increasingly over the past several years, for its animated television series.  These include the Disney+ superhero series Kiya & the Kimoja Heroes (2023), about an African girl whose passions in life are dancing and martial arts; Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, an Afrofuturist animated anthology series, also released in 2023 for Disney+; and the superhero series Supa Team 4, Netflix’s first original African animated series released in 2023.

In 2021, Triggerfish received the Mifa Animation Industry Award at Annecy International Animation Film Festival for "the pioneering role that the company has played in animation in South Africa, and Africa more widely." The company’s capacity building initiatives include Triggerfish Academy which offer online courses for aspiring animators;  a pan-African Story Artist Lab in partnership with Netflix; and the Triggerfish Story Lab, a pan-African 2015 talent search that drew nearly 1,400 entries, with the goal of kickstarting new animated projects.