Talal Afifi is a Sudanese film curator and creative producer, as well as founder and director of Sudan Film Factory, a production house and film culture platform that works since 2010 in empowering and building youth capacities in the field of documentation, film making and freedom of expression. President of Sudan Independent Film Festival since 2014, and manager of Karmakol International Festival. Member of the executive committee of the Sudanese Writers’ Union.