Wed, 08 Feb 2012
The inaugural Luxor African Film Festival will take place from 21 to 28 February in the city of Luxor, Egypt.
Wed, 08 Feb 2012
Three-in-one East African service provider Zuku, part of the Wananchi Group, has signed a carriage agreement with the African Movie Channel (AMC) to screen Nollywood and other top quality movies from the continent.
Mon, 06 Feb 2012
AfricAvenir presents the Namibian premiere of the award-winning South African Afrikaans language film, Oliver Hermanus’ Skoonheid, on 25 February at 7pm at Studio 77, Old Breweries Complex, Windhoek.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes…The World Has Malaria, a one-minute film by Resource Africa UK, recently won a special COP 17 prize in Durban, where the prize was awarded by Connect4Climate.
Tue, 24 Jan 2012
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes…Rwanda’s Kwetu Film Institute began its 2012 classes on 23 January following a one-week delay to accommodate completion of the filming of the current class project.
Mon, 23 Jan 2012
Lola Kenya Screen, a Nairobi-based charity specialising in issues related to children, youth, mass media, culture and development, is calling for film submissions and skill-development participation for its 7th annual event which that takes place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 6 to 11 August.
Wed, 18 Jan 2012
Zuku, the East African three-in-one service provider, today announced that it has completed its first major content sale. The deal sees Nigeria’s MyTV purchase over 70 hours of programming from three Kenyan production houses through Zuku.
Thu, 12 Jan 2012
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes…Sudanese director Taghreed Elsanhouri’s films Our Beloved Sudan and Sudan in Two have been selected to participate as video installations in the internationally acclaimed Lines of Control exhibition in Ithaca, New York.
Mon, 09 Jan 2012
As part of its monthly film series, African Perspectives, AfricAvenir Windhoek in cooperation with Studio 77 presents the Namibian premiere of the Senegal-France co-production, Black, by Pierre Laffargue.
Mon, 09 Jan 2012
The first edition of the African Student Film Festival, scheduled for September this year in Lagos, Nigeria, is calling for submissions until 31 May.
The festival is a Nigerian initiative born out of deep concern for the future of the continent in order to protect Africa’s cultural values and also to promote them to the international world.
Fri, 06 Jan 2012
The 7th Annual Digital Broadcasting Switchover Forum 2012, organised by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), will take place from 22 to 24 February at the Protea Hotel Balalaika in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Fri, 06 Jan 2012
The three-in-one service package from Wananchi Group, Zuku, has entered a licensing agreement with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution for the pay-TV rights in the East Africa region to a broad selection of library feature films.
The agreement is part of the ongoing drive to increase the all inclusive entertainment offering from Zuku.
Tue, 13 Dec 2011
BiztechAfrica reports that the Zimbabwean government has allocated US$5m to state broadcaster ZBC to facilitate the migration of its equipment from analogue to digital.
Tue, 13 Dec 2011
The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) is calling for the submission of papers and proposals for its upcoming e-Gov Africa Forum 2012, which takes place at the Grand Palm Hotel in Gaborone, Botswana from 5 to 7 March 2012.
Tue, 13 Dec 2011
American Tower Corporation and MTN Group Limited are to establish a new joint venture tower company in Uganda (ACT Uganda) which will acquire all of the existing tower sites from MTN Group’s operating subsidiary in Uganda (MTN Uganda), numbering approximately 1,000, for approximately $75m.
Mon, 12 Dec 2011
Martin Chemhere writes…Our Beloved Sudan (Sudanna Al Habib) by Sudanese filmmaker Taghreed Elsanhouri had its world premiere on 9 December at the 8th Dubai International Film Festival, which runs until 14 December with the theme Bridging Cultures, Meeting Minds.
Wed, 07 Dec 2011
Basic Lead, the organisers of the DISCOP regional television content markets, has announced that it will subsidise and set-up a European Pavilion during the 2012 edition of DISCOP AFRICA, to take place at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 31 October to 2 November 2012.
Wed, 07 Dec 2011
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes…The Gentleman has won an award for Best Director in the Best Narrative Feature category of the American International Film Festival (AIFF) 2011.
Thu, 01 Dec 2011
Comedy-themed entertainment brand Comedy Central will launch on MultiChoice’s DStv platform in 47 territories in sub-Saharan Africa on 6 December 2011.
Tue, 29 Nov 2011
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes…Nyaminyami Amaji Abulozi (Nyaminyami and the Evil Eggs), a film by Zimbabwe’s Tsitsi Dangarembga, had its world premiere on 22 November in Harare.
Tue, 22 Nov 2011
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes…A Ghanaian initiative is bringing hope to previously disadvantaged youths through a film training programme that takes place each summer.
Thu, 17 Nov 2011
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes…The recent three-day Film Indaba in Harare, Zimbabwe attracted a number of key people from the region.
Mon, 14 Nov 2011
The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) has announced the members of juries awarding prizes at its forthcoming edition, which will run from 30 November to 5 December 2011 in Lagos, Nigeria.
Wed, 09 Nov 2011
Ericsson in partnership with Sony Ericsson has announced plans to run a regional competition in sub-Saharan Africa for application developers on the Android platform. The competition titled ‘Apps for Africa’ is to run under the aegis of the 2012 Ericsson Application Awards (EAA 2012) - an ongoing annual competition for application developers worldwide organised by Ericsson Research.
Tue, 08 Nov 2011
Nyerai Films' latest film in development, Mud Wife, was in September selected for the Films Fra Sør / Films From The South Norwegian Film Fund. The film completes the Kare Kare Zvako trilogy produced by Olaf Kosckhe and Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Sun, 06 Nov 2011
Rising Cameroon director Zigoto Tchaya Tchameni has just completed his latest production, which is destined for the international film festival circuit. The Quick and the Dead is Zigoto Tchaya Tchameni’s (aka ‘Zigi’) 10th film in nine years. He is rated among the brightest and hardest working filmmakers in Cameroon.
Wed, 02 Nov 2011
Housed within the WebbLeBLANC company that Jasco has an interest in, Jasco Carrier Infrastructure is targeting GSM operators in the highly competitive African market with a comprehensive range of telecoms infrastructure solutions that can be deployed rapidly and easily.
Wed, 02 Nov 2011
A new Nollywood film shot in Gambia uses the family adventure genre to explore the universal concept of identity crisis, juxtaposed with the growing Afro-phobia among African children born in the diaspora.
Tue, 01 Nov 2011
Silverbird Entertainment Ghana Limited (SBEGL), a one-stop entertainment centre, won the CIMG (Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana) Emerging Brand of 2010 Award, presented on 3 September this year.
Thu, 27 Oct 2011
Created to showcase South Africa as the emerging leader of African talent, the Golden Rhino Film Festival will debut in London from 2 to 5 February 2012 and will also travel to Washington DC and Los Angeles (USA) in the autumn.
Thu, 20 Oct 2011
A Gambian production company is forging a path in a challenging film environment reports Martin Chemhere. Writer, director and producer Amadou Sillah fronts leading film and commercial’s production company Sillah Arts Audio Visual.
Thu, 20 Oct 2011
Gambia, the smallest country on mainland Africa, is internationally known as the setting for African-American Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize winning book Roots (Kunta Kinte). The book was adapted into a seminal television mini-series of the same name which broke audience records in 1977 when it aired on ABC in the US, generating 130 million viewers in eight days.
Wed, 19 Oct 2011
Rising Zimbabwean scriptwriter Joe Njagu (Lobola) has penned another potential blockbuster movie to come out of the country titled The Gentleman.
Wed, 19 Oct 2011
Ghana and Zambia are currently accepting entries for the Young Commonwealth Competitions 2012, which includes a film category.
Tue, 11 Oct 2011
One million Canadian dollars have been set aside for African documentary filmmakers in the Hot Docs Blue Ice Film Documentary Fund, to be distributed over the next five years.
Tue, 11 Oct 2011
The English version of the international news channel euronews has been added to the Zuku direct-to-home (DTH) package launched in September 2011.
Mon, 10 Oct 2011
After having won the Best Short Film award at the AmaSiko Heritage Festival in Pretoria for his short film, Orange Juice, at the end of September, Namibian director Tim Huebschle was featured at last week’s 14th edition of the Africa in the Picture Film Festival in Amsterdam.
Fri, 07 Oct 2011
The 2011 winners of Focus Features’ Africa First Program for Short Films are Oshosheni Hiveluah (Namibia); Cedric Ido (Burkina Faso); Mark Middlewick (South Africa); Akosua Adoma Owusu (Ghana); and Zelalem Woldemariam (from Ethiopia).
Tue, 04 Oct 2011
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes…Independent Ghanaian feature film Sinking Sands has been picked up by US company IndieFlix Studios in a deal that covers distribution on platforms such as iTunes, Netflix and Amazon Video on Demand.
Mon, 03 Oct 2011
The East African three-in-one service package from Wananchi Group, Zuku, is to carry four FOX International Channels across Wananchi’s cable and DTH platforms.
Tue, 27 Sep 2011
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes… Kigali based Kwetu Film Institute (KFI), in operation since January 2009, was recently re-launched at an occasion attended by a delegation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
Wed, 21 Sep 2011
Wed, 21 Sep 2011
South African terrestrial pay-television channel M-Net has sub-licensed the rights of its AfricaMagic content to international distributor THEMA TV.
Wed, 21 Sep 2011
Djo Tunda wa Munga's MTV Movie Award winning feature film Viva Riva! will open in an unprecedented 18 African countries starting in Kinshasa, The Democratic Republic of Congo on 22 September followed by South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Lesotho and Swaziland on 7 October.
Mon, 19 Sep 2011
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes… Child of Destiny is a new film based on a local dance group’s spectacular performance at the Roots Home Coming Festival in The Gambia.
Sun, 18 Sep 2011
When the adventure bug bit French husband and wife team Alexandre and Sonia Poussin in 2001, they spent the next three years shooting across Africa. Climbing mountains and rivers, soaking up the heat and Africa’s vibrant array of languages, dialects and landscapes.
Sun, 18 Sep 2011
A film training programme comes to South Africa and encourages Africans to tell their own stories.
Sun, 18 Sep 2011
A new documentary captures Senegalese communities embracing human rights education and transforming their lives.
Fri, 16 Sep 2011
The first ever DStv Eutelsat Star Awards in collaboration with MultiChoice Africa and Mindset Learn were held on 12 September in Johannesburg and were presided over by South African Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor.
Wed, 14 Sep 2011
MARTIN CHEMHERE writes… Twenty-six-year-old Anthony Abuah (Nigeria / Rwanda) is the Senior Silver Winner of the Royal Commonwealth Society‘s Vision Awards 2011 with his short film, The Unlucky Mother.
