Keeping Films for Children and Youth in Focus
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We invite interested children and youth aged 11-16 years in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda to apply for participation in our Cinematography workshop to be held at Goethe-Institut, Nairobi, Kenya, December 7-12, 2014. RELATED: Lola Kenya Screen Equipped Me…
By Aralynn McMane Published October 26, 2014 Twelve newspaper and news publishing associations have been designated as “Centers of Youth Engagement Excellence” by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), in a ceremony honouring their long-term commitment to…
By Steve Biko Abuya, Maseno University, Kenya As I left Lola Kenya Screen on August 1, 2014 having completed a rigorous three-month internship as a partial requirement for graduation from Maseno University in western Kenya, I was very grateful for…
More than 2 000 experts on media for children—content creators, broadcasters, educators, policy makers, digital media creators—from all over the world shall gather in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the 7th World Summit on Media for Children (7WSMC) September 8-10, 2014….
A South African pay TV broadcaster has announced that it will launch its own Film Academy at the beginning of 2015. M-Net says the initiative will be part of its corporate social investment initiatives aimed at developing the film and…
Subscription numbers for a South Africa-based pay-television businesses have grown by 1.3 million to reach more than eight million homes across 50 countries in Africa. Naspers’ pay-TV services take the form of MultiChoice’s satellite offering DStv and digital terrestrial television…
The winners of the third annual Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) Awards, a global online competition that invites students aged 13-19 years to use digital media to express their vision for driving positive change in their communities, have been unveiled. A…
A critic is to art what a doctor is to health and a teacher to education. A critic is a flash light, mirror, historian, archivist, scribe, guide, prophet and gate-keeper in whose absence creativity withers and dies. But first things…
Let’s say you want to make members of the public of your country aware of an important national cause. Let’s say you want them to not only take a stand on that issue but to also influence others to do…
Sensationalist media coverage of online risks such as cyberbullying or the dangers of meeting an online ‘friend’ offline may be acting as a barrier to effectively educating children on e-safety. A report from the EU Kids Online project based at…