Update: download the full programme of the festival (PDF, 1.5Mb)
Dates: October 21-31, 2011
Venues: Alliance Française, Goethe Institut, National Museum, Sarakasi Dome, Century Cinemax Prestige
Time: 9.30am-9.30pm
All screenings are free of charge
Theme: Leadership-the next Generation
For more info kifftrust.org and facebook page
In Kinshasa, every day is a struggle and every night is a party. In a city where everything is for sale, Riva has something everyone wants.
In the film Viva Riva, the lead character is a small-time operator who has just returned home to the Democratic Republic of Congo with a truckload of much sought after petrol, stolen from an Angolan crime lord.
With his pockets full of cash, Riva hits the town and falls in love with a local gangster’s girlfriend.
The plot thickens when his erstwhile accomplices arrive hot on his heels in pursuit of the stolen cache.
read the interview with Viva Vida! director Djo Munga
via this is Africa
The Official Site for ‘Viva Riva!’
“Kichwateli” is a wonderful Afro-Scifi music-mentary written and directed by Bobb Muchiri, performed by the super nerdy African boy band Just A Band, Berlin’s top electronic act Modeselektor and Nairobi’s talented art group Maasai Mbili. Introducing fresh talent Carlton Namai.
This video is Studio Ang’s contribution to the BLNRB project, a cooperation of Kenyan and German artists initiated by Goethe-Institut Nairobi and Gebrüder Teichmann. Find out more here: http://www.outhere.de/?page_id=3555
Watch the HD version on Vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/studioang/kichwateli
Find more info about “Kichwateli” here: https://www.studioang.tv
or on Studio Ang’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/studioang
TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
This weeks themes: “Don’t just think different, be different using what exists already”. Hosted by: Sabi
Featured Speakers: Graham Hill, Barry Schwartz & Charles Hazlewood
Directions to Braeburn: http://www.braeburn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=197&Itemid=695
Website: http://www.ted.com/tedx/groups/2441
Join here to stay informed on TEDx events in Nairobi:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122852434404442
Production Republic brings you “U Film It”, the first ever, new and exciting, mobile phone video contest in Kenya to showcase your creative talents and a chance to win our fabulous filmmakers winners cash prize of Kshs 50,000.00.
Other cash prizes is Kshs 20,000.00 and Kshs 15,000.00 for 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
U Film It is a mobile phone video contest that invites all mobile phone users to create a short film of not more than 3 minutes on any topic of your choice of everyday situations. The video clip must be recorded exclusively on a mobile phone. Anyone over 18 years of age can participate.
Simply create a short video of not more than 3 minutes and 10 megabytes with your mobile phone on any subject of your choice. Upload the video clip to our site, www.productionrepublic.co.ke. and invite your friends to vote for you to win our fabulous filmmaker cash prizes.
For those who have high-end phones that capture video in the highest resolution, we advise you submit your video via email at ufilmit@productionrepublic.co.ke. You must be a registered member to upload or submit your creative video for you to stand a chance of winning our filmmaker’s cash prizes.
The mission of the U Film It Mobile Phone Video Contest is to nurture creative talent in filmmaking in Kenya by providing a platform where such talent can be exhibited. We believe “U Film It” will unlock the massive potential of our creative class to produce imaginative and engaging local film content.
Get creative with your mobile phone TODAY and enter the U Film It mobile phone video contest and stand a chance to WIN BIG!
Screen on the Green is a platform for African filmmakers to show their movies, films, documentaries and short films. Screen on the Green delivers a unique and exciting experience for the local audience.
We attended the previous event, and it was truly wonderfully organised – a pleasure to enjoy an open air movie night in such a beautiful garden
This month’s screening: Sheena Queen of the Jungle
Where: Kifaru House off Kanjata Rd. (off James Gichuru) – House with Rhino on gate
When: October 8th 2011
Gates open at 5pm; movie starts at 7pm
Bring your own food and blankie to sit on.
Popcorn, bar, live, food on sale DJ
Advance tickets 800Ksh at http://tickets.pesapal.com/order.aspx/67ce4563-3a1a-46b4-a3f6-10d9c4595375/screen-on-the-green-throwback-classic-edition
Gate tickets 1000ksh
This is the story of Sheena whose parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an ‘African tribe’. As Sheena grows up, she learns much from the Shaman about the lore of the jungle and the ways of all its creatures and is even entrusted with the secret of telepathic communication with the animals. Tigora is under the special protection of King Jabalani. The King’s ex-football champion younger brother Prince Otwani is conspiring with his brother’s fiancee, Countess Zanda, to have Jabalani assassinated so that they can exploit the titanium-rich Zambouli lands.
Contact: info@screenonthegreen.co.ke
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=227211800668898
10:00am (for 10:30) to 12:00pm. Location: Braeburn School, Gitanga Rd, Austin Room
This week’s theme: Ideas for prosperity, featuring videos of TED Talks by Niall Ferguson & Nandan Nilekani
Why TED Talks? We need to intelligently reassess our systems of societal structure, education, and cultural narratives, and creatively think about the roles of morality, technology, human behaviour and collaborative civil society in our world. This event creates a space for open, exploratory dialogue to understand these issues, to ensure the diversity of our people and their thoughts are a source of intelligent constructive creativity rather than conflict.
Coordinated in conjunction with Braeburn Schools
Directions to Braeburn: http://www.braeburn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=197&Itemid=695
Website: http://www.ted.com/tedx/groups/2441 ; also http://www.ted.com/tedx/groups/825
Join here to stay informed on TEDx events in Nairobi:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122852434404442
For more information email: Farida_sher@yahoo.co.uk; irfan@whiterose.co.ke; salim_keshavjee@yahoo
On Saturday 8 October 2011 Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association will celebrate World Hospices and Palliative Care Day 2011 with a special film screening event at Alliance Francaise in Nairobi.
Based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, the film WIT features the Academy Award winning actress Emma Thompson, in a movie directed by Academy award winning director Mike Nichols. The film tells the story of Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson), a 48-year-old university professor, who learns the importance of simple human kindness when faced with the most daunting of crises: a diagnosis of advanced cancer.
Carole Mandi, Publisher of True Love and Drum Magazines, and one of Kenya’s most positive social commentators, will introduce the film and World Hospices Day 2011.
A drinks reception and raffle will follow the film screening and all proceeds from this event will directly support KEHPCA.
Venue: Alliance Francaise
Date/Time: Saturday 8 October 2011, 3pm
Tickets: Ksh 1,000
Booking:
Phone: 020 2729302 / 0722507219
Email: info@kehpca.org
In person: – At Dormans Coffee Shops in: Yaya Centre, Westgate Mall, and Junction Shopping Centre
– At KEHPCA offices: Chaka Court (next to Chaka Place), Argwings Kodhek Rd.
– At Alliance Française: Loita Street/Monrovia Street
Parking: Complimentary parking for event ticket holders will be available at Kenindia Assurance offices, Loita Street
Wit film is rated a PG-16
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is organizing two evenings about RAI (Italian public Radio & Television) presented by Dr. Enzo Nucci, Director of the RAI Sub-Saharan office in Nairobi. Featuring the screening of brief documentaries in Italian (English presentation) on:
(1) The positive uses of waste from dumping grounds (29.9.11)
(2) The Kenyan way of democratizing information (29.9.11)
(3) The inhabitants of Daadab (6.10.11)
At the Italian Institute of Culture – Michelangelo Hall – Woodvale Close n. 1 – Westlands, Tel.: (020) 4451266 / 7 – www.iicnairobi.esteri.it
on 29th September and 6th October 2011 at 7pm.
ENTRANCE FREE
29.9.2011 at 7pm.
A documentary on the positive uses of waste from dumping grounds (2010, 16min)
Directed and narrated by: Enzo Nucci, in collaboration with Alessandra Argenti of the Cultural Video Foundation
Nairobi is the largest city of Eastern Africa with its 4½ million inhabitants. A few Kilometres from the city centre stands the dumping ground of Dandora, one of the largest in the world. Indeed, it covers an area of 30 km² and the surroundings are inhabited by more than 900,000 people. It was already declared full in 2001 but since then 2 tonnes of garbage continue arriving every day. Chemical, hospital, industrial, agricultural and domestic waste are unloaded and abandoned without any treatment. Whatever is not recovered is burnt due to lack of space. The toxic fumes contaminate the air 24 hours a day.
The residents say that when it rains, black spots of dirt form on their clothes, dramatically elementary proof of the high levels of atmospheric pollution.
The UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) published a worrying scientific report in 2007. In the documentary the possible solutions are also shown. Because garbage is wealth, as some young rappers sing in the clip, and with best practice it is possible to transform it into a source of livelihood.
Followed by:
A documentary on the Kenyan way of democratising information (2011, 16min)
Directed and narrated by Enzo Nucci in collaboration with Vincenzo Cavallo of the “Cultural Video Foundation”
Kenya, 27th December 2007. Few hours have passed since the closing of the ballot boxes for the presidential election when political activists, bloggers and computer programmers joined forces and in 3 days developed Ushahidi, a platform for participatory journalism using free and open source software (i.e. free from commercial copyrights). The three promoters of this venture were Ory Okolloh, Erik Hersman and David Kobia.
Thus a participatory independent media was born, unprecedented in the history of the internet, not only in Africa but also in the rest of the world.
Ushahidi allowed Kenyans to inform and enquire in real time on the atrocities that were consuming the country, by-passing the institutional media, giving news in advance but also providing a precious logistic service to all those who, having to move within the country shaken by the clashes, needed to avoid dangerous check-points and hotbeds of violence. This technological innovation soon became a global case for mapping information in a participatory and shared way.
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6.10.2011 at 7pm.
A documentary on the inhabitants of the Dadaab refugee camp (2009, 16min)
Directed and narrated by: Enzo Nucci, in collaboration with Vincenzo Cavallo of the “Cultural Video Foundation”
Dadaab is the third largest human residential settlement in Kenya after Nairobi and Mombasa. it is also the second Somali built-up area after Mogadishu. The inhabitants live in an area as large as the city of Florence. This reportage (produced two years ago) highlights the drama of a situation that has exploded in all its gravity in the last months when the famine and drought emergency set in, pushing a thousand Somalis a day to look for help, however small, in the Dadaab camp.
From Nairobi Now’s friend Rachid:
I want to recommend a wonderful short film my good friend Robbie Bresson directs that is online at www.simiyusamurai.com. A tale of a young Kenyan who is orphaned by the tsunami in Japan, he returns home to live with his grandmother and experiences the adventure of a karate kid in Kenya. check it out.
The project is an ingenious attempt at financing film via sms/mpesa. Voters can choose via their phones to vote on a scenario they would like to see in part 2. thus funding the next part of the film. Each text (you have to be in Kenya for it to count) costs 50 or 60 shillings of which 20 goes to the production of part 2.
Enjoy!
If you are an artist trying to fund your next project, we want to hear from you! Send us some information via email or facebook and we’ll repost it!
