SLUM FILM FESTIVAL

Slum film festival is a pilot film festival that will and is focusing on films made by and about the slums.The pilot edition will focus on the images of slums around Nairobi,with the vision of expansion to include films from around the world in future editions.
There are many reasons why a public film event in the slums can become a positive initiative for the slum and its artists.This new cultural activity does not want to legitimise the existence of these informal human settlements,but to raise (more) public attention while changing people perspectives towards these spaces and the people who live there.The festival is to materialise the following:
The  film event will  become a platform for the film scene of the slum to reach other film events or the international film festival circuit and then facilitate  broader opportunities to this filmmakers.
The slum film festival will spread a different and more realistic picture of the slums.Slums are prone to health,social,environment and education problems,etc.This event will demonstrate that together with these critical conditions to be denounced,slums are also home for very talented and,creative and culturally active actors.The slums will also be seen as centre of production or producer of the stories besides being seen as film locations(spaces of film industry).
This festival will also be a magnet for media attention,while changing media discourses about slum’s realities.This media presence will allow mainstream media to acknowledge the presence of smaller slum based media content producers.
The contest is open to youth aged between 18-30 years interestedd in art and filmmaking from kibera and Mathare slums,as well as those artists from informal settlement. Professional artists not from the informal settlement are not eligible.
The festival is in two phases;
The first phase is the workshop, it’s mainly to train ten youth from any slum in Nairobi on story telling in video,the objective being to impart skills  of video to tell a story in video form.The filmmaking workshop is currently taking place at hotsun foundation,kibera.
After all this,a panel of judges will select the best camera work,the best video and editing.
Certificate of participation will be awarded to all.
The second phase is the screening of the different videos about kibera  from now till the 14th of Aug 2011 at kamkunji ground kibera.
As from  15-21Aug 2011 recruitment and training  of those interested in arts and filmmaking will take place in mathare,at mathare special training centre

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