Keeping Films for Children and Youth in Focus
Due to the on-going nationwide strike by public school teachers in Kenya, the Directorate of Lola Kenya Screen is forced to postpone the eighth edition of the annual Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, skill-development programme and marketing platform for…
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) again invite the world’s youth to submit original and creative videos focusing on PLURAL+ themes: migration, diversity and social inclusion. Recognizing youth as powerful agents of…
The 66th Lola Kenya Screen film forum is scheduled for Monday, May 27, 2013 at 6PM at Goethe-Institut. CONSEQUENCES, a film scripted by Florence Onyango, directed by Carol Odongo and produced by Cajetan Boy of Et Cetera Productions, shall be…
We, Lola Kenya Screen, are promoting short films (up to 60 minutes) from eastern Africa around the world. Such films can be any language as long as they have good English subtitles. We are starting with recent (2012 and 2013)…
Three hundred and ninety-seven films were received for consideration by our 8th annual festival, skill-development programme and marketing platform for children and youth in eastrn Africa that is scheduled for 12-17.08.13 in Nairobi, Kenya. About 100 of the films submitted…
By Ekine Stronghold Ogova Ondego, Managing Trustee of the Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, skill-development and marketing platform for children and youth in eastern Africa—while on a recent visit to Lagos—spoke to Ekine Stronghold of Nigeria’s Nollywood Television about…
By Sharon F. Mazvihwa,16, Zimbabwe I arrived in Nairobi on the eve of the third edition of the annual Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, skill-development and marketing platform for children and youth in eastern Africa. My participation in this…
Filming is currently under way in Beijing on Hoopla Doopla, a brand-new preschool series co-produced by ABC Children’s Television in Australia and China’s CCTV. The 52×12-minute live-action comedy series is dialogue-free. It revolves around six characters who tumble, juggle, leap…
Children are a discriminating and potentially highly engaged audience, but influences on their viewing patterns are complex, a study by Screen Australia and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation has found. Child’s Play was produced with the aim of increasing understanding…
Lola Kenya Screen has won the Best Foreign Documentary Film Award for her production, THE SPEAKER, at the second edition of Kidz Flicks: The Sydney International Festival of Films by Children in Australia, March 19-24, 2013. The Lola Kenya screen…