The Naija Artificial Intelligence Film Festival (NAIFF), Africa’s pioneering festival dedicated to AI-powered filmmaking and creative technology, has announced a new partnership with Google Flow Music, bringing together two communities at the forefront of a rapidly evolving creative landscape.
The partnership is designed to empower African creators with access to emerging creative technologies, opening new pathways for artists, filmmakers, musicians and storytellers to experiment, create and push the boundaries of what is possible.
Google Flow Music is a generative AI platform from Google that enables creators to generate, remix and share full-length, studio-quality songs and music videos from text prompts. Its capabilities include song generation, multimodal inputs and creative control, powered by Google’s Lyria 3.5 model.
For NAIFF, the collaboration represents a natural extension of its mission: to spotlight and equip a new generation of filmmakers and creative practitioners who are using artificial intelligence not simply as a tool, but as a new creative medium.
‘There are no limits to the imagination, and technology like this gives creators new ways to bring those ideas to life.’
The partnership reinforces NAIFF’s commitment to building an ecosystem where African creators can move beyond simply consuming technology to actively shaping what is created with it.
As AI continues to transform the global creative industries-from film and music to advertising, animation, gaming and digital storytelling-the question for Africa is increasingly not whether creators will participate, but what they will create when given the tools to imagine without traditional limitations.
NAIFF believes the answer lies in empowering creators to dream boldly, experiment freely and develop distinctly African expressions of emerging technology.
As part of the partnership, the Google Flow Music team will join the second edition of the Naija Artificial Intelligence Film Festival in Lagos, where they will demonstrate the technology and explore its creative possibilities with festival participants.
The live demonstration will form part of NAIFF’s ‘Tools, Talent and Technology’ workshop, taking place on 19 September 2026 at Alliance Française, Ikoyi, Lagos.
The session will offer creators an opportunity to engage directly with emerging AI tools and explore how generative technologies can become part of their creative workflows-from ideation and experimentation to production and storytelling.
For NAIFF, the objective goes beyond showcasing technology, it is about putting powerful creative tools into the hands of African talent and creating the conditions for a new generation of stories, sounds, images and experiences to emerge.
From imagination to execution, the future of African creativity is being written-and NAIFF wants African creators holding the pen.