FilmAid Film Festival, Jun 21 2012 @ Goethe-Institut

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FilmAid Film Festival on Thursday, 21st June 2012

Screening 1 – 4pm: Two short refugee films and feature film Welcome to Shelbyville
Screening 2 – 7pm: Two short refugee films and feature film Africa United

Goethe-Institute Auditorium
No. 3, Monrovia Street
Maendeleo House, Nairobi
Free Entry

For more information on FilmAid: www.FilmAid.org

FilmAid has been screening films in Kenya’s refugee camps since 2001, and producing local content in Kakuma and Dadaab for almost as long. Through a filmmaker training program FilmAid provides young refugees with the resources to tell their own stories in their own voices.

The FilmAid Film Festival showcases films produced in the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps by refugee filmmakers. These short documentaries and dramas offer a powerful insight into life in the camps, which are collectively home to well over half a million individuals.

In 2012 the FilmAid Film Festival screens local and international films in Kakuma, Dadaab and Nairobi, bringing the world of cinema to the refugee community, and refugee stories to a wider Kenyan audience. Founded in 1999 during the Balkan crisis by award-winning producer Caroline Baron (Capote, Monsoon Wedding), FilmAid uses the power of film and media to transcend language and literacy, bringing life-saving information, psychological relief and much-needed hope to refugees and other communities in need around the globe.