{"id":13099,"date":"2020-05-01T09:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-sets-new-african-original-series\/"},"modified":"2020-05-01T09:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:23:29","slug":"netflix-sets-new-african-original-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-sets-new-african-original-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Sets New African Original Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has a new original series out of Africa coming to its roster with the dance drama <em>Jiva!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jiva!<\/em> follows the life of the talented street dancer Ntombi, who while juggling the demands of a dead-end job, family responsibility and a rocky love life realizes that her dance moves could be her ticket out of her working-class neighborhood in Durban. But first, she must overcome her fears, beat her rivals and sort out the chaos that is her family.<\/p>\n<p>Busisiwe Ntintili, of The Ntintili Factory, is the creator and showrunner. Scottnes L. Smith (<em>Hear Me Move<\/em>, <em>There&#8217;s A Bluebird In My Heart<\/em>, <em>Long Street<\/em>), Mandla Dube (<em>Kalushi<\/em>) and Mmambatho Montsho (<em>Emoyeni<\/em>, <em>Lockdown<\/em>) will join the directing team.<\/p>\n<p>Jiva! will be produced by Cape Town-based production team Blue Ice Africa with Ntintili, Adam Friedlander and Tebogo Maila as executive producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has a new original series out of Africa coming to its roster with the dance drama Jiva!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":13100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-13099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-netflix","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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