South Africa’s public broadcaster has decided to air 90% and 80% ‘local content’ on its radio and television networks, respectively. South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has since May 12, 2016 been airing 90% local music on its 18 radio stations….
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Youth and children film and audio visual news from around the world.
Moviemakers worldwide have till 15.06.16 to send in their work for the 11th annual Lola Kenya Screen festival. That is just 11 days away! RELATED:11th Lola Kenya Screen Calls for Entries What sort of films are wanted? Lola Kenya Screen…
The winner of the 2016 edition of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALM) for children and youth literature, Meg Rosoff of the United States of America, accepted the prize on May 30, 2016. RELATED:Children’s Film Society of India Submits to…
Young Mozambicans have inundated Festival Fim do Caminho with short story submissions. The festival, that marks its third annual edition in 2016, says young writers responded to its “rallying cry for crime fiction with aplomb”, submitting more short stories than…
As the June 15, 2016 film submission deadline for the 11th annual Lola Kenya Screen festival approaches, the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI), has entered five feature and a short film for the event that is scheduled for December…
If you are 25 years old or younger and make movies, you have till May 29, 2016 to submit your short video to the United Nations (UN). RELATED:Lola Kenya Screen Equipped Me with Skills in Cultural Journalism, Arts Criticism and…
By Wayne Houghton Published April 20, 2016 Jobs which were commonplace in 2015 will no longer exist in 2025. The qualifications of Students graduating in 2016 will be obsolete for any profession in nine short years. How so? Digital innovators…
The 55th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005 was special to me in the sense that it not only focused on Africa, but that the world’s second largest audiovisual event imparted self-organization and event management skills on…
The deadline for receiving films for our 11th annual festival to be held in December 2016 is June 15, 2016. We invite movie-makers from all over the world to download our film submission form, fill it in, sign and send…
By Ogova Ondego Though Kenya has been exposed to movies over the past 114 years in 2016, the country does not have anything that resembles a motion pictures industry. Kenya may have had her first cinema in Nairobi some 100…