Echoes from Africa: Stories That Bridge, Voices That Inspire.
Aby Media is an independent production company developing bold scripted series rooted in Africa and built for the international market.
Founded by Bernard Azria and Kimberley Azria, and based between Abidjan and Los Angeles, we work across development, financing, production and co-production partnerships — pairing authorship on the ground with the craft, scale and commercial rigour of the global market.
Our slate spans returning drama, adventure, crime, thriller, and adapted international formats, each built on characters and worlds that inspire, engage and travel. Everything we make comes from one conviction: African stories, talent and intellectual property belong at the centre of global television, not at its margins.
About Us
OUR VISION
Bernard Azria
During my 40-year career, I was one of the first to advocate for a better place for Africa in the international entertainment scene. My dream and ambition is to make sure that our continent, which gifted to the world its artists, composers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, also earns a significant place in the global audio-visual industry. I have, with great pride, watched Kimberley embrace these dreams and ambitions of mine, and I am thrilled to put them in motion with her.
kimberley Azria
Television, at its core, is the intersection of culture and technology, and it has profoundly shaped our societies. As global citizens and, most crucially, as sons and daughters of Africa, we have the duty to harness this pivotal medium. I firmly believe that by elevating our distinct talents and voices, we can position our industry, with all its potential and resources, prominently on the global entertainment map.
Our Mission
Aby Media's mission is to establish African scripted drama as a consistent supplier to the international premium market.
The conditions for this have never been better. Audiences have shown, repeatedly and across territories, that they will follow a great series regardless of the language it is made in or the place it comes from. What was once considered a barrier — specificity of setting, of culture, of voice — has turned out to be the very thing that makes drama distinctive enough to cross borders.
Africa arrives at this moment with a culture of storytelling long embedded in how its societies remember, argue and entertain themselves. It brings a depth of talent and creative energy that reframes familiar genres — and more untold stories than the world has yet imagined.
We believe the commercial case and the cultural one are the same: series that are authentic to their place are the ones that travel. Our work is to make African series that do it consistently, at scale, and on equal footing.
We pursue this through three commitments:
developing authentic, original and scalable intellectual property;
producing with local creative leadership and international premium production values;
and building lasting partnerships with local and international broadcasters, co-producers, distributors and financiers who share that ambition.
projects
in development
LUCK BREAK
Series 30×30’
Adapted from SIC Portugal’s hit scripted format
When a humble cleaning lady wins the mega-million, her life is flipped upside down - for the best, and the worst.
ABIDJAN FOOTBALL CLUB
Series 8×52’
A disgraced football star returns to Abidjan to coach the collapsing club his brother died playing for — and to save it, he must confront the secret that drove him into exile fifteen years earlier.
ECHOES
Series 10x52’
Two idealistic podcasters chase an urban legend about a missing factory worker named Colette, only to discover the truth was silenced for a reason — and that exposing it could cost them everything.
GIGANTE
Series 8x52’
When a master artifact thief's last heist unleashes an ancient plague, he's forced to lead a ragtag crew of gifted misfits on a worldwide hunt for Africa's lost sacred relics — the only thing that can stop the epidemic from devouring humanity.