Azania Rizing Productions.
Azania Rizing Productions is an independent production company founded in 2009 by award-winning filmmaker Kurt Otabenga Orderson formed as a direct response to a lacuna in mainstream film and television, which excluded and continues to sideline the voices of historically marginalized populations.
Content Development
90%
Grant Writing
Concept Creation
Idea-to-Script Development
Production
80%
Creative Documentaries
Feature Films
Educational Films
Television Content
Post Production
95%
On-line Editing
Motion Graphics
Final Sound Mix
Music
75%
Music Videos
Production & Artist Managment
Who we Are
Kurt Orderson
Adrian van Wyk
Awards & Honours
“Not in My Neighbourhood”(2018)
Jury Award (Outstanding Film) at the African International Film Festival
Best Documentary at the HBO American Black Film Festival
Audience Award at Encounters Documentary Film Festival.
“On the Trail of my Father” (2013) Best Documentary, Silicon Valley African Film Festival
Receptions of the Arrighi Center for global studies fellowship – Johns Hopkins University
