CONTACT
Mary Birdi
Festival Manager
birdimar22@gmail.com
+255762469837
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
+255719468005
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