Elevate Africa Dangles $25,000 Grants, Launches 2026 Fashion Film Contest To Revive Indigenous Textiles

Elevate Africa has announced the commencement of applications for the 2026 edition of the Threads of Africa Fashion Film Prize, a pan-African initiative aimed at preserving and promoting endangered African textiles, garments and traditional fashion techniques through storytelling and film.
The organisation said the competition seeks to encourage creatives across Africa and the diaspora to document and reimagine forgotten aspects of the continent’s textile heritage at a time when African fashion is gaining increasing global recognition while offering $25,000 grants for winners, among other benefits.
 
According to the organisers, the programme was anchored on the theme, “Stories of R...