By Jane Wakefield The amount of time children spend glued to a screen has risen dramatically in the last 20 years, a new report suggests. Children aged five to 16 spend an average of six and a half hours a…
MOTHER, I LOVE YOU!, a film directed by Latvian Janis Nords has won the Best European Children’s Film 2015. The award was given out in a ceremony during the Children’s Film Community Party (Treffen der Kinderfilmszene) in the Berlin International…
An international film, screenplay and comic book competition for youth, students and professionals is calling for entries from all over the world. RELATED: South Africa’s M-Net to Launch Film Internship Academy The event, known as International Family Film Festival (IFFF)…
By Leon Mageto, 14, Nairobi, Kenya I felt honoured and was greatly humbled to have the opportunity of being taught Camera Techniques, Lighting, Sound and Editing by university professors. And this in my early teens; those are memories I will…
By Josephine Hatangimana, 11, Bujumbura, Burundi Though I was born in Nairobi and lived there for a while before my parents returned to Bujumbura, I was excited when I was selected from Burundi to participate in a filmmaking workshop organised…
By Ummu-Salama Khamis Ibrahim, 12, Zanzibar, Tanzania It was a sweet surprise when I learnt that my application for training in filmmaking in Kenya had been accepted and that I would be one of the three children selected to participate…
By Didier Winston Haguma, 15, Kigali, Rwanda I was honoured to be among the three children selected from Rwanda to join others from the East African Community countries—Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda—to train in a filmmaking workshop offered by…
By Sharon Mwangi, 13, Mombasa, Kenya From the first day of the training on December 7 to the last on December 12, 2014, I interacted with the other children from Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Kenya very well. RELATED: Toy…
By Celestine Msake Oburu, 15, Nairobi, Kenya The highlights of my adventure at the 9th annual Lola Kenya Screen festival included the cinematography training, the visit to Nairobi National Museum, Maendeleo House and Kenya Broadcasting Corporation. I learnt important lessons…
Los Angeles, California (USA)-based Nigerian filmmaker, theatre arts practitioner, and instructional education technologist, Akpor Otebele, was the lead trainer at the just concluded 9th annual Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, skills-development programme and marketing platform for children and youth…