Keeping Films for Children and Youth in Focus
Trends and news for youth and children interested in film.
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…
Children’s rapid adoption of the internet and other online technologies, together with the constantly changing media landscape (e.g. more apps and tailored sites, more individualized media use, more mobile internet), pose challenges to researchers concerning the difficult task of adapting…
Men in Africa are considered bread winners and protectors of families. But what happens when conditions attached to the cash economy turn these traditional providers into beings who have to depend on women, they that have traditionally depended on men?…
The Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media initiative for children and youth in eastern Africa traces its history to pre-school and Sunday school where its founder used to teach. Ogova Ondego, who founded Lola Kenya Screen in 2005, sought to train…
By Harun Ng’ang’a Kiruku Published August 9, 2013 At around 15 minutes to 6.00 pm on July 29, 2013, I was standing outside the entrance to the auditorium of Goethe-Institut, the venue of the Lola Kenya Screen film forum (LKSff)…
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)…