The sixth edition of the annual Lola Kenya Screen film festival has concluded up in Nairobi with the best children’s film and best youth films going to Belgium and Madagascar, respectively. MORE

BY OGOVA ONDEGO. NAIROBI, KENYA (CINEMA MINIMA) — Lola Kenya Screen productions — HAPPY TIMES by Elaine Nesbitt, MANANI OGRES by Samuel Musembi, Joseph Hongo, Marcus Kang’ethe and Norrick Mwangi, and SANTOS THE SURVIVOR by Rupinder Jagdev — have been selected for the Ready Action! competition section of the 6th Busan International Kids’ Film Festival in Busan, South Korea. Seven other Lola Kenya Children’s Screen productions… MORE

BY OGOVA ONDEGO. NAIROBI, KENYA (CINEMA MINIMA) —

The Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, skill-development mentorship programme and market for children and youth in eastern Africa on 2011 July 12  released the film line up for its 2011 August 8-13 sixth annual festival that shall be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on the theme, “Films for Enjoyment, Learning and Participation in the 21st Century”.

 Lola Kenya Screen received more than… MORE

The Lola Kenya Screen — audiovisual media festival, skill-development mentorship programme and market for children and youth — is calling upon interested participants to submit quality films to the sixth edition of the annual event that will take place 2011 August 8-13 in Nairobi, Kenya, east Africa. MORE

Nairobi will come alive on 2011 February 25 and 26 when leading film practitioners in Africa and the Diaspora converge on the Kenyan metropilis for the 7th edition of the annual Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) Nomination Night and Music Concert.

According to an AMAA Press Statement issued in Lagos on February 2, 2011, the event–-dubbed Nairobi Rocks with Stars–-the Nomination Night will take place on Friday night at… MORE

The Seventh African Movie Academy Awards Nomination Night will take place on February 12, 2011, in Nairobi, Kenya. Filmmakers — from all over Africa, and from the African diaspora worldwide — will attend the event. Over 300 African motion pictures had been submitted in 2010 for consideration by the Africa Film Academy. MORE

Iran sentenced independent filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi to six years in prison for speaking against the regime and for making films of which the government does not approve. Directors Abbas Kiarostami, Francis Coppola, Martin Scorcese, and Steven Spielberg have called for the release of the two artists. MORE

The Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media movement for children and youth in eastern Africa marks five years since its founding in 2005 as an audiovisual media festival, skill-development mentorship program, and film market. MORE

Academy Award contenders from 13 European countries will be screened in Beverly Hills (Los Angeles) for Academy members, film professionals, and American Film Market (AFM) attendees. The industry screenings — which are hosted by European Film Promotion — will run from 2010 November 3 to November 10, coinciding with the AFM. Cinema Minima’s guide to the screenings includes the complete schedule, and is indexed by country and by title. MORE

The Nairobi-based Lola Kenya Screen — audiovisual media festival, skill-development mentorship program, market for children and youth in eastern Africa — marks five years of service to children and youth in November 2010 with two cutting-edge, skill-development mentorship programs in Documentary Filmmaking, and Critical Writing. Deadline to apply October 30! MORE