FESTIVALS AWARDS EVENTS NEWS
Mon, 05 May 2014 12:26
The Zanzibar International film Festival logoThe Zanzibar International film Festival (ZIFF), which takes place from 14 to 22 June, will feature a line-up of films from 35 countries along with a number of musical acts, workshops, events and a film outreach program called the Children Panorama.
Films
Festival Director Professor Martin Mhando said, “79 films will be screened in the 10-day festival including foregrounding films from Africa and the Dhow countries, spiced up by award winning films from international film festivals.” These films will comprise of 38 short films, 23 feature length films and 18 documentaries.
Richard Alden, CEO of Zuku, one of the festival sponsors, added: “The festival is an expression of Zanzibar’s historical link with cinema as well as highlighting the festival’s long‐standing commitment to joining filmmakers and local audiences together to experience cinema in a country where all cinema theatres were closed in the 1990’s.”
Exhibitions
A French exhibition, Sisygambis, which features the multimedia work from the five years Christine Coulange spent travelling the Spice Route will feature over seven days of the festival.
Afrika Tumefika, a Ugandan project on popular art and fashion will also feature in the festival line-up.
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation will present an exhibition themed: Natural Resources – Blessing or Curse, which will have a focus on how the lives of people have changed through land grabbing, mining and forced migration.
Workshops
Zuku TV will present a script writing workshop, facilitated by English documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield and director Marc Hoerferlin. “This workshop is especially funded by Zuku TV which is looking for submissions for feature-length Swahili films for broadcast on Zuku Swahili Movies, which is a premium movie channel tailor-made for audiences within East African,” explains Alden.
The Maisha Lab of Uganda will also be presenting a script writing workshop in Kiswahili in an effort to train and educate emerging East African filmmakers. The workshop will reward the filmmaker who produces the best script with a $2 000 reward, in order for them to create the film within three months.
The East African Community in partnership with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit will sponsor a film production workshop. The workshop will draw on the newly formed East African film Network, which is a collaboration of regional film festivals, policy makers and industry stakeholders.
Outreach
Partially sponsored by Save the Children Zanzibar, Children Panorama is an outreach program which will allow 2000 children to view and discuss films with the core discussions for this year being themed on environmental issues.
Visit the ZIFF website for more information.
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