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Africa: Film Africa 2011 - Celebrating Cinema
African Arguments, 26 October 2011
There has never been greater interest in African film. A half-century after Africans started making their own films, supplanting the patronising images evident in colonial cinema… Read more »
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Rwanda: 'No More Chance for Local Producers to Make Average Movies' - Film Festival Organiser
New Times, 17 August 2011
Following the success of the just concluded Rwanda Film Festival (RFF), The New Times (TNT) caught up with Pierre Kayitana, Producer and Event organizer of RFF to speak about the… Read more »
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Rwanda: Film Festival Gets Underway
New Times, 14 June 2011
Hillywood brings you yet another full-package entertainment and thought-provoking films from Africa and beyond. Read more »
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Tanzania: Zanzibar Film Festival Releases Programme
Citizen, 20 May 2011
As the world anxiously waits for the 14th edition of the Zanzibar International Film Festival, organisers this week released the programmme lineup for the films and workshops for… Read more »
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Gambia: Seventh African Movie Academy Awards Held
Daily Observer, 8 April 2011
The celebration of the Seventh Annual African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) culminating in the award ceremony was held recently at the Gloryland Cultural Centre in Yenagoa, Bayelsa… Read more »
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West Africa: Nigerian Wins Ecowas Prize for Integration At Fespaco
Ecowas, 11 March 2011
Nigeria's Mac Kusare has won the ECOWAS prize for integration at the just- concluded 22nd Pan African Film and Television Festival (FESPACO) which ended on 5th March 2011 in… Read more »
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Rwanda: Gilbert Ndahayo Takes His Film Skills to Another Level
New Times, 24 September 2011
U.S-based Rwandan filmmaker Gilbert Ndahayo is pursuing his master's degree from the prestigious University of Columbia University's grand film school in New York. Read more »
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Nigeria: On a Nollywood Myth And the Rise of the Nation's Cinema
Daily Trust, 23 July 2011
This week I re-read an article "The Myth of Nollywood and the Rise of Nigerian Cinema" by Rob H. Aft published as a guest post on an independent film website, Indie Wire in January… Read more »