Noel Kok is an independent filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer. Passionate about refocusing the narrative of Africa, creating opportunities and unlocking barriers to entry for African storytellers, Noel is a co-founder and Executive Director of Nature, Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF) and co-leads Africa Refocused, a collaboration between NEWF and National Geographic Society. NEWF is a community-centric organization encouraging stories told by a connected pan-African network of natural world visual storytellers, conservationists and scientists and is dedicated to building capacity in order to enable access, support inclusion, expand local audiences and foster a culture of equity for African nature, environment and wildlife visual storytellers.
