The fifth edition of the annual Lola Kenya Screen — audiovisual media festival, production workshop, and market for children and youth in Eastern Africa — ended in Nairobi, Kenya on August 14, 2010, with top prizes going to Nigeria and Malawi. This marked a change from previous editions, when laurels had gone to films from the Northern Hemisphere. MORE

Skilled media artists create new works out of public domain footage from Library and Archives Canada. MORE

Do the releases of “director’s cuts” send a bad message to audiences — that any theatrical release is deficient — that the best version of a movie would have been held back for a later, “special edition”? Plus — How the fashion for continuity editing killed voiceover narration. MORE

The 5th annual Lola Kenya Screen has announced the film line up for the August 9-14, 2010 festival; 37 countries, 5 continents, 33 languages represented. MORE

BY MARTIN LEDUC. TORONTO (CINEMA MINIMA) — Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) will be holding their anual Videodrome Audio/Visual battle on April 17th, 2010.  Here’s some description from dropframevideo:
The Video Battle is a competition of audio/visual media work, the A/V battle, the VIDEODROME. Developed from the idea of the hip hop DJ battle, artists will throw down fast and hard attempting to out flash each other… MORE

BY OGOVA ONDEGO. NAIROBI, KENYA (CINEMA MINIMA) — The deadline for filmmakers for the next Lola Kenya Screen Film Festival is 2010 April 15. The festival — which will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, in August 2010 — accepts films that focus on children ages 13 and under, youth (14-25), or family (25+). Filmmakers may be children, youth, amateurs, students, or professionals. There is no charge to enter a film into the festival. MORE

Kietryn Zychal is the New York correspondent for Cinema Minima. She has worked as a journalist in the American state of Pennsylvania where she had the distinction of being the first investigative reporter in 46 years to be allowed to read a police file for an unsolved 1962 double homicide. The prime suspect, Edward Maps, was on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list for five years. The police file contained evidence… MORE

CEO Ava B. connects independent movies with both traditional and non-traditional distribution to reach the widest possible global audience and maximize producers’ revenue in a new ‘fusion distribution’ model. “This new business model underscores our ability to incorporate product placement and integration, as well as sponsorships, into the production of quality independent films.” MORE

BY AUSTIN BURBRIDGE. AMERICAN FILM MARKET, SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA (CINEMA MINIMA) — Movie business professionals who attend the American Film Market have an opportunity to pitch their movie ideas to producers, distributors — and the audience for an American television awards show, “The People’s Choice Awards.”

“The AFM is about the business of film — everyone is selling something — so… MORE

BY AUSTIN BURBRIDGE. SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA (CINEMA MINIMA) — Cinema Minima is covering the American Film Market from 2009 November 4 Wednesday to November 11 Wednesday. For updates follow <twitter.com/cinemaminima>.Complete stories, reviews, and analysis will appear here shortly… MORE