Understanding
Africa through Film
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70
films from 20 countries in 7 days (25 November to 1 December 2013)
ARUSHA,
TANZANIA: September 2013
The 2nd Arusha African Film
Festival [AAFF 2013] will take place from Friday, 29th November to Saturday, 1st December, 2013 at various venues in
Arusha. The venues include Mount Meru Hotel, Alliance Francais, New Arusha
Hotel and Via Via.
There will also be workshop sessions,
seminars, panels, poetry reading, and performance arts from the 25 to 28 November 2013. In all, the film festival events will run from
25 November to 1 December 2013.
There will be 70 films from 20 countries shown in 7 days. Over 3,000 people are
expected to attend the screenings.
The Arusha African Film Festival is an
international platform for the exhibition of films that are
Africa-focused. It is also a forum for
film education, distribution, marketing and networking. The festival will bring
from around the world, filmmakers, actors, producers, commissioning editors,
distributors, scholars, poets, performing artists, cinema enthusiasts, students,
and the public together for the common purpose of understanding Africa through
film. The theme of this year’s festival is “Sociocultural
Narratives and Aesthetics of Africa on Film.”
According to Akpor Otebele, the festival
director, “the objective of the
film festival is to showcase movies from all over world that tell the stories
of African peoples in their own way thus fostering the understanding of Africa
through film. Africans have vast resources of stories and experiences, and they
need cinematic outlets like the Arusha African Film Festival.”
The film festival organized by HAKIKA
Entertainment is a sequel to last year’s successful, first ever film festival
to be held in Arusha, Tanzania.
Of the 2nd Arusha African
Film Festival, Mary Birdi, the festival
manager, says “this year, it is
bigger and bolder showcasing full-length and short films, documentaries, music
videos and student films from Cameroon, Canada, Cuba, Finland, France, Germany,
Ghana, Jordan, Italy, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa,
Tanzania, Uganda, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe,”
says
Some of the award winning films that
will be screened include: Nairobi Half Life (Kenya), The
Ugandan (Uganda), Aramotu (Nigeria), Ninah’s
Dowry (Cameroon/USA), Seasons of a Life (Malawi), From
Namibia with Love (Namibia/Finland), Soweto Blues (South
Africa), The Gentleman (Zimbabwe), and several Tanzanian films such as Ray
of Hope, Super Model, Chungu and Crush.
Nasir
Mohamed, the
festival coordinator, affirms that “the
workshops and seminars will be on the prospects of filmmaking in Africa, youth
development, health awareness as well as women empowerment, and how these
elements influences socio-economic advancement in our communities.”
The
4-day intensive, hands-on workshop will run from Monday, 25 November to
Thursday, 28 November 2013 The theme of the workshop is
“Health Awareness and Prevention,”
and participants will script, act, direct and produce videos that will be
screened on Sunday, 1 December 2013,
to honor the World’s AIDS Day. The workshop participants will be drawn from
local talents in Arusha and from the East African region. The facilitators and
coordinators of the workshop will be film practitioners from the African
continent.
The sponsors for this year’s festival
include Mount Meru Hotel, The New Arusha
Hotel (both hotels supported AAFF, last year), LOGARNET and OJ&T-CNN
(both Nigerian organizations that believe in the objectives and mission of
AAFF). Alliance Franco-Arusha, Via Via
and Wakunga Zamani (an Arusha-based
eclectic coral group which partnered with AAFF, last year) are partners of the
2nd Arusha African Film Festival.
Hakika Entertainment, the organizers of
the Arusha African Film Festival believe that it is laudable for individuals,
corporations, governments, and organizations to support our efforts in making
the Arusha African Film Festival, one of the cultural highlights of Arusha,
Tanzania, and Africa, as a whole.
“We are still open to sponsorships and partnerships
for the 2nd Arusha African Film Festival,” says Mary Birdi.
The key personnel for the Arusha African
Film Festival are Akpor Otebele, the
festival director, Mary Birdi, festival manager, and Nasir Mohamed, festival coordinator. Malick Sufian and Ally Maukwe serve as
AAFF’s publicists, and there are volunteers who are also helping with day-to-day
operations. More volunteers are needed.
Akpor Otebele Mary Birdi
Festival Director [AAFF]
Festival Manager [AAFF]
+255689393429 +13109204341 +255762469837
Nasir Mohamed www.hakikaentertainment.com
Festival Coordinator [AAFF] www.arushaafricanfilmfestival.com
nassirmo@gmail.com
+255719468005 www.facebook.com/arushafricanfilmfestival
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