Africa
in Motion in Tanzania at Zanzibar International Film
FestivalThis month Isabel and Lizelle are excited to be
representing AiM at the Zanzibar International Film Festival
(ZIFF) in Tanzania. While at the festival, Lizelle has been
participating on the main jury while Isabel has been a participant on
the Ousmane Sembene competition jury. ZIFF is East Africa's
largest film, music and arts festival and this year the programme has been
assembled with films and events that capture the essence of the diversity of
humanity and humanity's most precious resource - creativity, complying with
their 2012 theme "When Global Images Meet Zanzibar". Like
AiM, Ziff offers audiences a discursive look at the context of
African film and African film festivals as well as an insight into African arts
in general through musical performances and art exhibitions. This year,
ZIFF has organised a compelling conference on Zanzibar's potential as an
international film location place; a discussion panel on the role of Film
Festivals in Marketing and Distribtution led by a team of the Pan African Film
Festival (LA, USA); and numerous musical performances. Here are Isabel and
Lizelle's photographs for us of us who aren't lucky enough to be there to
enjoy!  L-R Top: Audience at ZIFF main venue, open air cinema at Old
Fort; Musical performances at ZIFF. L-R Bottom: Director of South African film
UHLANGA (The Mark) introducing the film; Conference on the role of Film
Festivals in Marketing and DistributionThe festival closed last
night with a fantastic awards ceremony and closing party. Amongst the winners
this year was 'Inside Story' (Rolie Nikiwe: South Africa) for Best
African Film, 'Moccasins' (Denis M. Kimahi: Kenya) won Best
Short Film and AiM favourte Mika Kaurismaki's touching film 'Mama
Africa' won Best Documentary. For more winners from ZIFF 2012
visit the website: ZIFF
Africa in Motion Film Festival
Opportunities
AiM is looking for enthusiastic individuals to
support our mission and to facilitiate Africa in Motion 2012!
Marketing and
Sponsorship Assistant
(Voluntary with the potential to become
paid)
6 August to 30 November 2012
Africa in Motion
is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Marketing and Sponsorship Assistant to
join our team and help raise the profile of the festival and its programme of
events. The ideal candidate will live in Edinburgh, have a passion for Africa
and for the arts, excellent administrative, organisational and computer skills
and the ability to use their own initiative and think creatively. Some previous
experience in arts marketing and dealing with sponsors is desirable. The
successful candidate must be able to commit to a minimum of 10 hrs per week and
will predominately work from the Africa in Motion festival office in Leith.
Africa in Motion will cover any expenses incurred. After an initial voluntary
period of two months, there is the possibility of the positions being converted
to part-time paid positions for the final two months of the contract.
This position
will provide valuable experience for people wishing to pursue a career in arts
marketing. If you are studying towards an arts management or marketing degree,
this position could provide an excellent internship opportunity. The deadline
for applications is 20 July 2012, with interviews due to take
place Wednesday, 24th July 2012. For more information on this
post, including how to apply and a full job
description, please visit our opportunities page on our website: Africa in Motion Opportunities
Deadline
for applications: 20 June 2012
AiM Call for Papers: Africa in Motion 2012
Symposium (Modern Africa): Deadline
aproaching!
African
Popular Culture in the 21st Century:
Africa
in Motion 2012 Symposium
Saturday 27 October, 9am -
5:30pm
Seminar rooms 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan
Building
George Square, University
of Edinburgh
To link with the Africa in Motion 2012
festival theme Modern
Africa, we are inviting
papers from scholars working in the field of African Popular Culture. Through the academic symposium, we will
continue to explore the urban, the new, the provocative, the innovative and
experimental. We regard "modern" not as belonging solely to the "West", and
through the festival we want to emphasise Africa's important role in the modern
world. We are interested in discovering and exploring through this year's
festival how modernity manifests in African cultures, and the symposium focus on
African popular cultue will further enhance this study. Abstracts are solicitated for
individual 20-minute
papers on the theme of the
symposium. We are looking for submissions from scholars at all levels
(postgraduate students are most welcome) and invite contributions rom as wide a
scope of reearch areas and disciplines as possible. We invite abstracts of 250-300 words as well as brief biographical details
(no more than 100 words) to be sent to the symposium organisers at symposium@africa-in-motion.org.uk byMonday 30 July 2012. Please include contact details,
institution affiliation, current appointment/stage of study and main research
interests. For more inforation on the symposium,
along with suggested topics and questions to be addressed, please visit
the symposium page of our website.
Africa in Motion events in July
AiM &
A&CN Present: Films for children and youth
Date: Saturday 21 July, 11am
Location: African &
Caribbean Network, Osborne Street, Glasgow
Admission: Free
Films: African
short films for children (TBC)
Africa
in Motion (AiM) Film Festival are very pleased to announce that the festival is
expanding to Glasgow in 2012. AiM Glasgow will run parallel with the Edinburgh
festival between 25 October and 2 November.
In
preparation for the AiM Glasgow 2012 festival edition, we will be running a
number of events with African-focused organisations based in Glasgow. In order
to fill an evident gap in Glasgow cinema-going culture, we are eager to give
Glaswegians the opportunity to see great African films.
This
month's event in collaboration with the African & Caribbean Network will
focus on Children and Youth so bring down the whole family for free African
films! This events begins at 11am at the African and Caribbean Network, Osborne
Street, Glasgow.
Call for
Entries
International Images Film Festival For
Women
Deadline: 31 August 2012
The
International Images Film Festival for Women (IIFF) in Zimbabwe is calling for
entries for the festival taking place from 23 November to 1 December in Harare,
6 December in Bulawayo, 7 December in Gwanda and 13 to 14 December in
Binga.
While any
film entered should have all the attributes of good cinema, including good
production values and entertainment value, it should also show some analysis of
the woman or women featured. Production date is irrelevant, but the film must
have a woman in a lead role. Ideally the film should be witty and humorous,
featuring women who are not afraid to push boundaries in their quests, women who
embrace the principles of extreme leadership.
Events
Cinematographic
Framework of Hergla
Date: Saturday 14 July - Wednesday 18 July
2012
Location: Tunisia
A new
session of Hergla Film Meetings will be held this year from 14 to 19 July 2012.
This festival African Mediterranean is celebrating its eighth anniversary. The
Film Meetings will Hergla an opportunity to bring together young people from
both sides of the Mediterranean and north and south of the Sahara around the
cinema and audiovisual arts in general.
For more
information on the 8th session of Film Meeting Hergla and a full programme,
visit the website: www.herglacinema.org.
Mandela Day: Books
Send-off to Eastern Cape
Date: Wednesday 18 July 2012, 15:30
Location:
George Square, Glasgow
Admission: Free
You are invited to
join ACTSA at 3.30pm on Wednesday 18 July 2012 in George Square, Glasgow to
send-off 50,000 books in a container to Eastern Cape libraries in South
Africa. The send-off will be conducted by the South African High
Commissioner,Zola Skweyiya andScottish Government Minister for Local Government,
Derek Mackay.
Following
the books send-off you are invited to a Reception in the City Chambers. For more
information on this event and to RSVP for the reception, visit ACTSA's
website: www.actsascotland.org.uk or email John
Nelson.
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South by South Film Screenings
Date: Friday 20 July 2012, 7pm
Location: South
London Gallery, London
Admission: Free
This series of film
screenings showcases work made by artists living and working in Africa. The
South by South programme also includes a two-month residency for artist
Emeka Ogboh in the SLG’s Outset Artists’ Flat,
taking place from July – September 2012. The programme is curated in partnership
with Joseph Adesunloye in association with Africa 2.0 and the Royal African
Society.
On 20 July
South by South wll screen Rwandan award-willing feature film, 'Bamako'. Rwandan
filmmaker, Pascale Kasirabo, also presents his short film A Lifeless Life and
takes part in a Q&A about his work. To book tickets, visit the South London
Gallery website: http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/bamako.
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Festival
of Yoruba Arts London
Date: 28 July 2012, 11:00 - 21:00
Location:
Clissold Park, Hackney, London
Admission: Free
The 3rd
Annual, open air, festival of Yoruba Arts, London 2012, celebrating, the rich,
vibrant and colourful Arts and Culture of the Yoruba's, from the West African,
West Indian and Latin American communities in the UK and worldwide in Clissold
Park, Hackney, London (Olympic Host borough).
Experience
heart-pounding entertainment, action packed presentations, Arts and Crafts,
Competitions, Cultural performances, and delicious African food everyone has
come to expect from the festival. Live bands from around the world playing the
best of Salsa, Highlife, Calypso, Juju, Afro-beats, Jazz + more. www.foya.org.uk
***
Young
Fathers present: Jekalo 2
Date: Saturday 28 July 2012, 20:00
Location: The
Cuckoo's Nest, Home Street, Edinburgh
Admission: Free
Edinburgh-based Afrobeat band Young Fathers host a night
of great music and spontaneous performance. G will be playing whatever he
wants to play. Kayus will await any one who will challenge him at checkers, and
Ally will sing if he gets enough of the juice.
**Chicken and Rice for all the
early ones**
***
Screening:
"WWW - What a Wonderful World" (Original with German
subtitles)
Date: Thursday 2 August 2012,
21:15
Location: Freiluftkino HasenHeide, Berlin
AfricAvenir
in collaboration with Planete Metis presents the postmodern and poetic cult
movie "WWW - What a Wonderful World" by Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaidi.
Permeated by political symbolism, the movie tells the story of a contract killer
who falls in love with a police woman. "WWW - What a Wonderful World" is an
entirely modern movie, burlesque in its acting, strange in its composition of
pictures, funny and bold.
AfricAvenir
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