The Nairobi-based Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, skills-development mentorship programme and market for children and youth in eastern Africa is calling for film entries from children in Africa.
The films are for the 5th annual Kids for Kids Africa Festival Competition, which has been organised within the framework of Lola Kenya Screen since 2007.
Says Ogova Ondego, director of Lola Kenya Screen: “The films we are looking for must be made by children and youth in 2010 and 2011 only; any film made by adults masquerading as children or youth are unacceptable. We define a child as any one aged 18 years and under. And such people need not be citizens of Africa but can be resident in the mother continent at the time the film was made.”
Ondego clarifies that films made by children under the guidance of adults are eligible for the Kids For Kids Africa but that the contribution of adults should be confined to training or facilitating the process but should not be extended to areas such as scripting, shooting, story-boarding or animating.
“Eligible films are those made by children resident in any part of Africa. All kinds of moving images-—animation, experimental, documentary, fiction—-will be considered,” Ondego says.
Like all entries to Lola Kenya Screen, any film in a language other than English must be sub-titled in English.
“All entries will be received, processed, assessed and awarded by a film selection committee and jury comprising children. Winning entries will represent Africa at the international Kids for Kids Festival,” Ondego adds.
The deadline for receiving entries at the Lola Kenya Screen directorate is April 15,2011.
Films for the 4th Kids For Kids Africa are to be submitted to:
Lola Kenya Screen, PCEA Enchoro Emuny Church, Ngong Road, Ngong Hills,
P O Box 20775-00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya (EA).
The Kids For Kids Festival (KFKF) is an international community of young filmmakers and media educators; it constitutes a unique, international movement for the promotion and advertisement of audiovisual messages created by children for children.
The International Centre of Film for Children and Youth (CIFEJ) has undertaken the quality control of the Kids For Kids Festival, and up to 2009, has been the main partner of the Global Network of KFKF.
A series of affiliated KFKF have now been operating on regional levels, like the KFKF Balkans, KFKF Africa, KFKF Nordic & Baltic Sea, or on a national level like the KFKF-UK and KFKF Iran.
KFKA was first held in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the 5th World Summit on Media for Children in 2007. However since August 2007, KFKA has been organised and presented in the framework of the Kenya-based Lola Kenya Screen.
“We have organised and presented KFKA since 2007 because we share the core values with KFKF and CIFEJ: promoting cinema art by children for children,” Ondego says.
For more information email director@lolakenyascreen.org
