BY OGOVA ONDEGO. ZANZIBAR, TANZANIA (CINEMA MINIMA) — Lola Kenya Screen, the annual audio-visual media festival, production workshop and market for children and youth in eastern Africa — that holds in Nairobi, Kenya, every second week of August — has announced the names of candidates for her 4th skill-development programmes to be held 2009 August 10-15 in Nairobi, Kenya.
The names of successful applicants were made available to the international media in Zanzibar, Tanzania, during the 12th Zanzibar International Film Festival on 2009 July 1.
The Nairobi-based Lola Kenya Screen has — since its inception in October 2005 — been exploring, identifying and nurturing talent among children and youth in areas such as screen-writing, cinematography, production, marketing, distribution, creative journalism, event planning and presentation, and critical appreciation of creativity.
Lola Kenya Screen was established as a movement that uses appropriate and available technologies to deliver audiovisual media content that complements, enhances, entertains and promotes learning among children and youth in the promotion of literacy, gender equity, independent thought, human rights, environmental responsibility and global health.
Apart from the Television Drama workshop that is aimed at adults (above 18 years) interested in creating audiovisual media works for children and youth, the rest of the programmes target people defined by the laws of Kenya as children, i.e. children and youth (under 18 years).
Film Production
- Njeri Waithera Nesbith, 13, Braeside School
- Alex Ndegua, 16,Ruiru Boys secondary
- Brian Saruni, 14, Highway Secondary School
- Charlene Ndolo, 14, German School
- Charmaine Ndolo, 14, German School
- Crystal Ndolo, 7, Riara Road Primary School
- Daniella Kinyanjui, 11, Mount Kenya Academy
- Flora Wanjiru, 16, Githurai Mixed Secondary School
- Fredrick Ochieng, 16, Bridgeway School
- Irene Esonga, 16, Kahawa Garrisson Secondary School
- Michael Mwangi, 15, Moi ForcesAcademy
Event Organisation and Presentation/MC
- Tracy Muringa, 14, State House Girls High School
- Bernard Otieno, 15, Moi Forces Academy
- Nicholas Ngugi Ngobe, 10, Almond Land School
- Rushel Rang’ala, 17, Cardinal Otunga High School Mosocho
Film Jury
- Samantha Wangui, 8, Riara Road Primary School
- Sauda Hamisi, 12, St Arnold Jansen School
- Vanessa Wanjiku, 8, BuruBuru I Primary School
- Wangari Mumbi Kiarie, 15, Kianda School
- Vivian Atieno, 16, Annointed High School
- Creative Journalism/Festival Press
- Whitney Kerubo Otenyo, 13, Excel Academy
- Antony Mukiri Chege, 12, Uthiru Primary School
- Harun Muange, 15, Moi Forces Academy
- Kathleen Siminyu, 15, Kianda School
- Polet Njeri, 15, Alliance Girls High School
- Mina Ogova, 11, Greenyard Junior School
Television Drama
- Moses Siku, 22, Multi-Media University
- Mitchelle Janga’ra, 18, Limuru Girls’ School
- Ken Mbugua, 26
- Charles Thuku , 18
- Catherine Kiambati
- Anthony Micheni Metha
- Janet Mose, 18
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Austin Burbridge
Austin Burbridge is Editor-in-Chief of Cinema Minima. After successful careers in manufacturing and in technology, he founded Cinema Minima, Sustainable Cinema, and Far From Hollywood. A native of Texas, he learned cinéma vérité technique at Rice Media Center. At Brown he concentrated in Semiotics and in Art; he studied Art History at the University of Chicago. He lives in Los Angeles.
Chris WinsomeChristopher Winsome is the Publisher of Cinema Minima for Movie MakersKietryn Zychal
Kietryn Zychal is a Correspondent for the New York Bureau of Cinema Minima. She has worked as a journalist in the American state of Pennsylvania. Prior to working as a journalist, Zychal was an actress. She toured several American states performing a one-woman show “Merely the Ravings of a Maniac,” that she wrote and produced. Her screenplay, “What Comes Next,” is a dark comedy about the difficulty of being married to a professional golfer. Zychal is writing a TV pilot called “Eco-Hookers.” She was educated at Lehigh University and studied abroad in England and Switzerland.
Ogova OndegoNairobi-based full time worshipper at the shrine of arts and culture; writer specialising in issues related to children, youth, media, culture and development, with a bias towards african and children's cinemaSuddhasatya Ghosh
Suddhasatya Ghosh is based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
