African film festival has mushroomed film production works among African countries ,which highlights and promote various key issues among the African society. Most of this film festivals have similarities and differences based on their various aims. UDADA FILM FESTIVAL and KALASHA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL are among the festivals for African film.
UDADA FILM FESTIVAL- is the first festival in the East African region that exclusively feature women's fiction, animated and documentary films productions from all over the world; highlighting women and their work, exposing women's issues, concerns and perspectives in the societies they live in. International films give the audiences an insight into other cultures for comparison to their own.
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KALASHA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL aims to position the country as the leading country that stimulates intra-trade & worldwide activities in the film & TV fields in East Africa. The rebranded Kalasha International Film & TV Festival & Market brings under one roof 3 main activities:
The Kalasha Eastern Africa Film & TV Trade Show which is scheduled for two days; showcasing East African companies under national pavilions, while the international TV & Film players attend as participants. The national pavilions include Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Mauritius, Madagascar and Reunion
The Kalasha International Film Festival scheduled for a week in various venues throughout the country: Nairobi, Mombasa, Eldoret, Kisumu, Nyeri and Malindi. For the first edition, the eligible entries were from the entire continent. Screenings were organized in various theaters and venues.
The Kalasha Film & TV Awards ceremony which closes the event
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‘Hapa-Kule News’ program was named the best TV comedy show, as Khaleed Abdul scooped Best performer in a TV comedy.The award for the Best Television Show Hosts went to Sarah Hassan and Charles Ouda of Discovery 254. The best television documentary award went to the Unity Dow story
The second edition of UDADA Film Festival took place from the 15th-20th October 2015. UDADA Film Festival received over 150 feature, short and documentary film entries through various platforms from over 50 countries This was a 30% increase from the 2014 submissions. About 1000 people attended the festival. The Udada Film Festival ran educational forums at the Multimedia University of Kenya and at PAWA 254. Animation films by Ngendo Mukii She made a very inspiring presentation of her work to Film and Animation students at the Multimedia University.
• Production by Karen Mukwatsi. Ms. Mukwatsi is the festival director of IIFF (International Images Film Festival for Women) The Zimbabwean partners presented their activities to enhance film production in Zimbabwe. They run a screenplay competition and then go on to source for the production funds. These films are then shown at their festival. Afterwards, the films are improved
The extent in which the film Kokoda (2006) accurately represents aspects of the Kokoda campaign is moderate. The Kokoda campaign lasted four months and consisted of battles fought between Japanese and Australian forces. The battles began when Japanese forces arrived at the north coast of Papua New Guinea in July 1942. Their strategy was to advance through a track over the Owen Stanley Range and occupy Port Moresby, in order to use it as a base for launch operations and threaten Australia. As a defence, Australia sent the newly formed 39th Battalion to cross the Kokoda Track and defeat the Japanese.
While our lives occur in a linear fashion, memory recollection tends to be relatively disordered. In Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001), Kon represents memory in the film with a unique anime twist. The film depicts a recreation of memories from a retired famous actresses ' life to two documentary filmmakers. Over the course of the film, it becomes clear that her retelling blends the plots of the movies she starred in with personal details of her own life, presenting to the filmmakers a more emotional and personal retelling of her life rather than a literal, chronological one. The selected sequence displays Kon 's use of animetism, open compositing, and continuity editing to portray the nonlinear nature of memory in a manner possible only
In Orlando-the film history –mainly a very selective as well as English history – was made the central theme in the film’s overall structure. In addition to this, Potter has treated her protagonist’s travels specifically from the Elizabethan era to the 21st in only six chapters including Death in1600, Love in 1610, Poetry in 1650, Society in 1750, Sex in 1850 and lastly, Birth (the date being unspecified). Considering these events, the death was that of the Queen Elizabeth I, the love was of Orlando for her Sasha, the Muscovite ambassador’s daughter to England, and lastly the birth of Orlando’s daughter mainly in one of Potter’s very few significant modifications to Woolf’s text mainly where Orlando’s first child was a son (Jean-Pierre Boule
Over the past century, film has served as a powerful means of communication to a global audience and has become a vital part of the contemporary culture in a world that is increasingly saturated by visual content. Due to the immediacy and the all-encompassing nature of film, the process of watching a film, is widely perceived to be a passive activity by the general masses. However, quoting Smith in his article about the study of film, “nothing could be further from the truth.” The study and understanding of film as an art form enhances the way we watch and appreciate films. It requires the audience's active participation and interaction with the film in order to fully comprehend the directors' intention behind every creative decision.
In our society today, every individual’s ideas can be exchanged in various creative forms. The short film medium, being a form of social commentary, is a pertinent driving force behind shifts in personal values. Thus short films as a textual form have great value and impact to society due to their versatile delivery. Steve Cutts’ Happiness (2017) is a satirical film whose fast-paced nature prioritises meaning over matter to critique the constant pursuit of happiness in misplaced interests. Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv’s Strangers (2003) depicts a singular scenario and builds tension to convey the overcoming of entrenched racial divides.
Intro: In this essay I will be looking at the history of documentary and how advances in technology have affected documentary filmmaking. I will be doing this by researching the advancements in cameras, and camera technology, sound, travel, and advancements in the internet. I will talk about transmedia storytelling and how advancements in technology have allowed documentary filmmakers to make documentaries this way. I will also be taking a look at the history of documentary and when the advancements in technology began to influence how documentaries were made.
Being a visual medium of presentation, a film creates an instant, direct and more convincing impression on its audience fulfilling its dual purpose of entertaining as well as sensitizing the audience. A lot of movies based on social issues are now being made to create awareness among people about the issues besides entertaining the audience, which is perhaps the foremost purpose behind the making
MCAT Box Office Sdn Bhd or also known as MBO Cinemas has been slowly but consistently climbing the vertical road of success especially since the attainment of Big Cinemas back in 2012. Now one of the top three largest cinema chains in Malaysia, MBO shows no sign of slowing down as it plans to open up more new locations in the near future. This company was founded in 2003 and grow up successfully in 2012. The CEO of the company, Lee Eng Hee said that the company improve a lot with separate into 26 branch around the Malaysia include Sabah and Sarawak. The MBO Cinemas now have 191 screens with the new technology of video and audio systems.