Film Aid Festival aims to promote the work of creative filmmakers from FilmAid’s film training programs in the Kakuma and Dadaab Refugee camps.
This program provides film making skills to eager youth who learn to write, shoot, direct and edit their own films, allowing them to tell their stories in their own voices, through their own artistic expression.
Dates: August 21-23, 2013
Venue: Alliance Francaise Auditorium
Entry: Free
The festival will showcase these films along with award-winning international documentaries and dramas, all of which relate to this year’s festival theme: The Right to Tell Our Stories.
Accompanying the films, there will be two discussion panels allowing the audience to engage and converse with experts on refugee issues. The topics to be discussed are as follows:
Thursday 22nd Panel: Media, Rights & Displaced Persons
Friday 23rd Panel: Xenophobia, Racism & Tribalism
Programme of Films
Beasts of the Southern Wild
21st August @ 2pm & 22nd August @ 5.30pm (With discussion panel)
Hushpuppy, a tenacious six years old, lives in an isolated bayou community. When her father succumbs to a mysterious malady, she sets out in a journey to save him.
Nickel City Smiler
21st August @ 5.30pm & 23rd August @ 2pm
Nickel City Smiler chronicle a refugee’s fight for survival and hope in the American rustbelt.
Finding Hillywood
22nd August @ 2pm & 23rd August @ 5.30pm (With discussion panel)
‘Finding Hillywood’ is a unique film about the very beginning of Rwanda’s Film industry
On the closing day, there will be an award ceremony for the best filmmakers from different categories.
