For its 5th edition, Digital Lab Africa is switching to a fully online format. The incubation and mentorship programs followed by the DLA#5 laureates will include online activities, online mentorship, and participation to online industry events. Furthermore, Digital Lab Africa call for applications will take place in two different phases. The first phase will be dedicated to immersive experience and animation categories and will take place between March and April 2021. The second phase will be dedicated to video game, digital art and music categories and will take place between June and July 2021.
DLA#5 call for application is open to anyone from the field of digital content creation: artists, producers, designers, start-ups, SMEs, collectives, students or entrepreneurs, living or native from a Sub-Saharan African country. It targets innovative digital content from the perspective of form, storytelling and technologies used in one of these 5 categories: immersive experience, gaming, music, animation and digital art.