Keeping Films for Children and Youth in Focus
Trends and news for youth and children interested in film.
Facebook marks its 10th anniversary on February 4, 2014 and, shortly thereafter, dies. Researchers at New Jersey (USA)-based Princeton University’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have predicted what they refer to as imminent demise of Facebook by comparing the…
Lola Kenya Screen has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with United Arab Emirates’ Children’s International Film Festival. The MoU of friendship and collaboration, signed by Managing Trustee Ogova Ondego for Lola Kenya Screen and Director Deepak Jain for CIFF, shall…
Research on an interactive character on a screen that responds to pre-schoolers and gives them feedback on an early math skill is underway. Sandra Calvert, professor of psychology in Georgetown College and director of the Children’s Digital Media Center, has…
Our Managing Trustee and Creative Director represented us at Ajyal Youth Film Festival in Doha, Qatar, where he also presented a paper on ‘Marketing Motion Pictures for Children and Youth’. More than 70 experts from all over the world who…
When mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp first emerged in 2009, they looked like a threat to mobile carriers. Everyone from Vodafone to Dutch operator KPN was mentioning them in sales calls. Mobile operators are estimated to have lost US$23bn…
Children should spend no more than two hours a day on the internet, according to official advice from doctors. The American Academy of Pediatrics say the limit also applies to watching TV and that smartphones and laptops should be kept…
Our 8th annual festival returns with the best possible films for children, youth and family from Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Egypt, Abu Dhabi (UAE), India, South Korea, Bulgaria, Spain, Australia, USA, Poland, Greece, Italy, United Kingdom, France, Singapore, Germany, Brazil, Austria,…
This interview with Lola Kenya Screen founder Ogova Ondego was conducted by Rut Gomez Sobrino of Spain who was a mentor at the 4th annual Lola Kenya Screen festival in 2009; it was initially carried out for the UNESCO e-Platform….
Lola Kenya Screen offers a full-fledged internship in creative entrepreneurship (event management, conception and production of high quality movies, exhibition and promotion of films, critical appreciation of creativity, media literacy). Subject to availability of resources, out-of-school and final year students…
Lola Kenya Screen offers internship–opportunity for the participant to acquire REAL life skills–to talented final year university students who are interested in changing the world for the better through creative entrepreneurship using the media and information discipline. The programme is…