Lola Kenya Children's Screen
- Lola Kenya Children's Screen
Lola Kenya Screen(aka Lola Kenya Children's Screen) is an annual film festival, production workshop and market, established by arts and culture journalist and writer Ogova Ondego in October 2005. Deriving its name from a Bantu language meaning watch or see films in Kenya, the first edition of the festival was held in Nairobi August 7-12, 2006. The second Lola Kenya Screen runs August 6-11, 2007. The film festival focusses on films by children and youth, for children and youth, and with children and youth. During the event, that runs every second week of August, children (6-13-year-olds) and youth (14-25-year-olds) serve on the film selection committee, programme presentation, film jury members, and in the practical filmmaking workshop that produces at least five short films. During the inaugural event in 2006, participants made nine short films that have since won Grand Prize at Kids for Kids Africa festival, and are being shown aroung the world in Germany, Poland, Senegal, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Brazil, and several other festivals they are invited to [http://www.lolakenyascreen.or.ke]
Objectives of the festival
*To make the means of film production accessible to new, up and coming talents
*To build an audience for African films by encouraging culturally relevant, audience-sensitive films in local languages, cultures and reality
*To promote film skills and develop talent in Kenya
*To produce at least six films each year from film production workshops
*To collaborate with national and international partners in the training of young talents who would like to further their expertise in the fields of screenplay writing, cinematography, art department, sound, acting, directing, producing.
External links
*http://www.lolakenyascreen.or.ke
*http://www.artmatters.info/?articleid=43
*http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117962519.html?nav=news&categoryid=1985&cs=1
*http://www.filmmaker.co.za/readarticle.php?article_id=400
*http://kenya.africancolours.net/content/12237
*http://www.kidsforkidsfestival.org/en/index.htm
*http://www.filmingkenya.com/localfilm.html
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