The world’s oldest working filmmaker — Manoel de Oliveira — has postponed his visit to the 34th São Paulo International Film Festival while he recuperates from a medical procedure. Although he still plans to attend, he will not be present at the screening of his latest film, THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA, which opens the festival. MORE
A panel of celebrated independent filmmakers will convene at the 2010 American Film Market to discuss their craft during the TromaDance Film Festival press conference at 3 o’clock in the afternoon of November 4 in the Press Room of Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel in Santa Monica, California. MORE
Movie makers who attend the 2010 American Film Market in Santa Monica, California, will have an opportunity to pitch their movie ideas to the fans of an American television awards pageant, “The People’s Choice Awards.” MORE
Filmmakers in Eastern Africa — Burundi, Eastern Congo (Kinshasa), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda — are invited to submit their best works made between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2010 for consideration by the continental Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA). Deadline is November 30, 2010. MORE
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
Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art will hold its annual Videodrome Audio/Visual battle on April 17, 2010. The Video Battle is a competition of audio/visual media work developed from the idea of the hip-hop DJ battle. Artists will throw down fast and hard attempting to out flash each other with selections, cuts and mixes extreme, humorous and dangerous. MORE
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
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.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.
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
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