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Moonlight Cinema: Basic Instinct, Jul 24 2011 @ Capri 7
Open Air Cinema every week at Capri 7; where we celebrate Classic movies on a large Outdoor Screen!
This week – get blown away by the Sexy Bombshell; Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas, in the 1992 Erotic Thriller; “BASIC INSTINCT”
Come with a friend and a Duvet, and after that; its old skul jams at the Main Bar.
Local Beers: 150 Entry: Free!
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Homages: Jane Murago-Munene, Jul. 22-23 2011 @ Goethe
The Retrospectives on Kenyan Filmmakers continues at Goethe Institut with the screenings of Jane Murago-Munene films.
Dates: July 22-23, 2011
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: 4pm
Entry: Free
2010 was a successful year for Kenyan film. Many of its protagonists are not well known, not even in Kenya, and it is time to pay homage to their works. Goethe Institut series, which introduced Jacob Barua, Judy Kibinge and Willie Owusu to a keenly interested audience, last year, continues with Jane Murago-Munene.
Jane Murago-Munene is a producer and director of CineArts Afrika, a communication and publicity firm based in Nairobi. Besides managing her company, she has produced numerous prize-winning feature and documentary films throughout her career. Her latest achievements are Turning Tide: Women Entrepreneurs in Africa, a TV-series showcasing successful businesswomen from East Africa, and Monica Wangu Wamwere – The Unbroken Spirit, which was awarded the First Prize Documentary, FESPACO 2011.
As chair of Kenya National Film Association (KNFA) Jane was part of the team that helped establish the Kenya Film Commission and also steered the creation of KIFF – Kenya International Film Festival.
Screenings
The Prize of Daughter
This feature film highlights the plight of the girl child through Naisenya, a nurse trying to bring change in her community. The film revolves around the Female Genital Cut, a traditional practice that not only has devastating health implications but also hinders the girl’s progress.
Turning Tide
Women Entrepreneurs in Africa This is a television series showcasing successful businesswomen from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
Women, Water and Workload
A documentary on women of Kwale District in the southeast of Kenya who have to trek long distances for water with deleterious effects on their children.
Water Closer to the People
A documentary on the Kwale Water and Sanitation Project demonstrating the importance of community participation and the incorporation of local approaches in the provision of clean drinking water and sanitation facilities.
Silence is Betrayal
A 5 minute video documentary on rape which was used to commemorate the St. Kizito Secondary School tragedy that occurred in 1991 in which 19 girls were killed and 71 others raped when the male students went on rampage. Silence is Betrayal played a key role as an advocacy tool and helped in lobbying for the Sexual Offences Bill through screenings in workshops with various groups. The Bill was passed by Kenya’s Parliament and came into law in July 2006.
Behind Closed Doors
A feature film that voices the violence women undergo silently. The story centres on Rose who is faced with domestic violence. The film emphasizes the need for women to take control of their lives.
Sustainability: Productive Use of Water
A documentary on the community managed and successfully operated Kabuku Water Project in Kiambu.
Rekindle the Embers
A look at the Lake Nakuru National Park and the environmental degradation it has suffered due to man’s involvement and the remedial measures being taken to reverse the trend.
Monica Wangu Wamwere – The Unbroken Spirit
This documentary explores the search for justice by a mother whose three sons were detained during the clamour for multi-party democracy in Kenya. Monica Wangu Wamwere started the Release Political Prisoners group to push for her sons and 49 other detainees release. She, together with mothers of other political detainees, camped at both Uhuru Park and the All Saints Cathedral for more than a year. It is the story of a woman who sought justice for her family and for Kenya. It is a story of Kenya’s struggle for the second liberation. It is a story of courage and determination. It is a story of power for the powerless. Above all, it is the story of a mother’s unconditional love. – The Unbroken Spirit won First Prize, Best Documentary at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) 2011.
Contemporary Spanish cinema, Jul. 16 – Sep. 20 2011 @ Embassy of Spain/Alliance
The Embassy of Spain in Nairobi is happy to invite you to
Cinema.ES, a new contemporary Spanish cinema series.
26th July 2011, 5:00pm at the Embassy of Spain:
La Vida Perra de Juanita Narboni, Dir. Faarida Benlyazid (2005, 101min.)
9th August 2011, 5:00pm at the Embassy of Spain:
Hiyab (short), Dir. Xavi Sala (2005, 8min.) + La Zona, Dir. Rodrigo Plá (2007, 97min.)
22nd August 2011, 6:00pm at Alliance Française de Nairobi:
La Vergüenza, Dir. David Planell (2009, 107min.)
6th September 2011, 5:00pm at the Embassy of Spain:
La Vida Secreta de la Palabras, Dir. Isabel Coixet (2005, 115min.)
20th September 2011, 5:00pm at the Embassy of Spain:
Vete de mi, Dir. Víctor García León (2006, 95min.)
* All films in Spanish original version with English subtitles.
Each screening will be followed by a discussion.
WHERE: Embassy of Spain, CBA Building, Mara & Ragati Rds., Upper Hill
Alliance Française de Nairobi, Monrovia/Loita Streets
Free Entrance.
Moonlight Cinema, every Sunday @ Capri7
Every Sunday, watch a classic movie on a large air screen @ Capri 7.
This week, we get fresh with Captain Harris and the rest of the Team, on their “Assignment in Miami Beach”; the 5th installment of the comedy parody “POLICE ACADEMY”
Come with a friend and A Duvet – Beers@150
Festival: Film Aid Film & Film Forward Festival, Jul. 18-20 2011 @ Alliance
Dates: July 18-20, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 6pm
Entry: Free
July 18, 2011
Son of Babylon by Mohamed Al-Daradji, Iraq (2010 – 1h30)
In the days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, a young Kurdish boy and his grandmother venture through Iraq on a quest to find their missing father/son.
July 19, 2011
Winter’s Bone by Debra Granik, United States (2010 – 1h40)
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her missing father while trying to keep her family intact.
July 20, 2011
Amreeka by Cherien Dabis, United States (2009 – 1h36)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois, they find their new lives replete with challenges.
The films are presented by Film Aid International & Film Forward in partnership with the Sundance Institute with the aim of advancing cultural dialogue.
All films will be preceded by a short film produced by refugees in Kenya.
For more information visit: www.filmaid.org/festival
Film Aid Festival, Jul. 14-21 2011
Dates: July 14-21, 2011
Venues: Goethe Institut, Alliance Française, GoDown Arts Centre, Dadaab, Kakuma
Entrance: Free
Contacts: 0204443385, +254 722 540 543 or Nairobi@filmaid.org
Website: http://www.sundance.org/filmforward/
Festival includes: Workshops, regular screenings, feature short films, outdoor community screening, seminar and documentaries.
Download the Sundance Film forward Draft Schedule.doc
“FilmAid International, though its innovative work of screening films in refugee camps, makes a significant difference in the daily lives of refugees.”
–Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General, United Nations
Festival: Film Forward Festival, Jul. 16-17 2011 @ Goethe
Dates: July 16-17, 2011
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: Saturday; 1, 4 & 7.30pm and Sunday; 1, 3, 4.30 & 5.30pm
Entry: Free
FilmAid is partnering with the Sundance Institute to bring the Film Forward Festival to Kenya. Film Forward is a cultural exchange program designed to enhance cross-cultural understanding, collaboration and dialogue around the globe by engaging audiences through the exhibition of film and conversation with filmmakers. Between 15th and 21st July, Film Forward events will take place throughout Kenya.
Screenings and workshops are being held in the refugee camps of Kakuma and Dadaab, and the slums of Kibera and Mathare in Nairobi. Through these programs FilmAid and Film Forward are engaging communities who would not usually be able to enjoy a world class film festival.
At Goethe Auditorium they will show amongst others Udaan (IND), Last Train Home (CHI), La Mission (USA), Afghan Star (UK), as well as A Small Act (USA) followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Jennifer Arnold.
SATURDAY, 16TH JULY 2011
1.00 pm UDAAN
India – Director and Screenwriter: Vikramaditya Motwane – 138 min
Cast: Rajat Barmecha, Ronit Roy, Aayan Boradia, Ram Kapoor
Following his expulsion from boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur. After 8 years away, he finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half-brother whom he didn’t even know existed. Udaan explores deep-rooted family dynamics and a triumph of the human spirit. – Sundance 2010
4.00 pm LAST TRAIN HOME
Canada – Director: Lixin Fan – Documentary – 87 min
Getting a train ticket in China proves a towering ordeal as a migrant worker family embarks on a journey, along with 200 million other peasants, to reunite with their distant family. – Sundance 2010
7.30 pm A SMALL ACT – followed by Q&A with the filmmaker Jennifer Arnold
United States – Director: Jennifer Arnold – Documentary, 88 min
A young Kenyan’s life changes dramatically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received. – Sundance 2010
SUNDAY, 17TH JULY 2011
1.00 pm FREEDOM RIDERS
United States – Director: Stanley Nelson – Documentary – 113 min
The story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called the Freedom Riders who in 1961 creatively challenged segregation in the American South. – Sundance 2010
3.00 pm LA MISSION
United States – Director and Screenwriter: Peter Bratt – 117 min
Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Erika Alexander, Jeremy Ray Valdez, Talisa Soto Bratt, Jesse Borrego
A traditional Latino father in San Francisco’s Mission District struggles to come to terms with his teenage son’s homosexuality. La Mission is credited by Latino media as being both authentic and genuine to various aspects of American Hispanic cultures. – Sundance 2009
4.30 pm A Short Refugee Film – followed by Q&A with the filmmaker
Sundance 2010
5.30 pm AFGHAN STAR
Afghanistan/UK – Director: Havana Marking – Documentary – 87 minutes
After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, Pop Idol has come to television in Afghanistan: millions are watching and voting for their favorite singer. This film follows the dramatic stories of four contestants as they risk their lives to sing. – Sundance 2009
Film Forward is an initiative of Sundance Institute and The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (USA).
Screening/Discussion: Slingshot Hip Hop, Jul. 9 2011 @ Goethe
Date: July 9, 2011
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: 6pm
Entry: Free
The Nairobi Rap Research Group presents Slingshot Hip Hop! This local research group is organised by Wasanii Mtaani as part of their ujuzi labs. It is made up of enthusiasts, historians, creative technologists, cultural critics, linguists, teachers, MCs and academics, who meet to discuss various topics in rap e.g. quantifying art & metaphor, data visualisation, cultural analysis, gaming, curriculum design and more.
The film Slingshot Hip Hop (80 min) covers the stories of young Palestinians living in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty.
The screening is intended for the purpose of adopting learning lessons that can be applied to the Kenyan situation. Afterwards there will be a discussion on the topic Migratory Aesthetics – A Working Model for International Hip Hop, moderated by Kevin Ovita Teddy.
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CinemAlliance: Llaguno Bridge Keys to Massacre, Jul 4 2011 @ Alliance
A documentary film which deals with the terrible events of the 2002 Venezuelan coup d’état attempt
Date: July 4, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française
Time: 6pm
Entry: Free
Puente Llaguno: Claves de Una Masacre (Llaguno Bridge Keys to Massacre) by Angel Palacios (2004 -1h45)
Presented by Pamoja Film Initiative as part of the celebrations of the Bicentennial of the Venezuelan Independence
TEDxBraeburnSchools, Jul 2 2011 @ Braeburn School (Gitanga Rd)
Why TED Talks? We need to intelligently reassess our systems of societal structure, education, and cultural narratives, and creatively think about the roles of morality, technology, human behaviour and collaborative civil society in our world. This event creates a space for open, exploratory dialogue to understand these issues, to ensure the diversity of our people and their thoughts are a source of intelligent constructive creativity rather than conflict.
At 10 for 10.30 to 12
Theme: The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?
Beware of the online “filter bubbles”
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate adapted from a talk at the RSA, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on ‘cyber-utopianism’ – the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics.
Exposing some idealistic myths about freedom and technology (during Iran’s ‘twitter revolution’ fewer than 20,000 Twitter users actually took part), Evgeny argues for some realism about the actual uses and abuses of the internet.
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Documentary: Restrepo, Jun 28 2011 @ Alliance
Screening at 6pm
RESTREPO
by Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger (2010 – 1h33)
Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival
A documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. The goal of the film is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. Hetherington was killed in April 2011 while covering the Libyan war
Documentary: Research & Development in the Tana River Delta, Jun 27 2011 @ Alliance
Screening at 6pm
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT IN THE TANA RIVER DELTA
by Khamis Ramadhan (2011 – 15min)
documentary produced with the support of the Embassy of France
The documentary highlights current participatory research activities in the Tana Delta being undertaken jointly by local and international researchers under Kenyan Wetlands Biodiversity Research Group (Kenweb). The discussions will focus on how best to utilize the natural resources for sustainable development in the Delta.
The film will be followed by a discussion.
TEDxBraeburnSchools, Jun 25 2011 @ Austin Theater
Saturday, June 25th 2011 at 10:00am (for 10:30) to 12:00pm.
Location: Braeburn School, Gitanga Rd, Austin Theater
Theme: Longevity, technology, accelerated evolution and the future of health
Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally — or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic modification, to make ourselves smarter, faster, better. Neo-evolution is within our grasp. What will we do with it? Harvey Fineberg studies medical decisionmaking — from how we roll out new medical technology, to how we cope with new illnesses and threatened epidemics.
At TEDxPeachtree, bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe describes an astonishing series of recent bio-engineering experiments, from hybrid pets to mice that grow human ears. He asks: isn’t it time to set some ground rules? Paul Root Wolpe examines the ethical implications of new science — genetic modification, neuroscience and other breakthroughs that stretch our current philosophy to the breaking point. He’s the chief bioethicist at NASA, among other appointments.
Kenyan Movie: Ndoto Za Elibidi, from Jun. 24 2011 @ 20th Century Cinema
An improbable duo, a British actor turned charity founder and a Kenyan art director, came together and shot a movie on HIV/AIDS. The result was Ndoto za Elibidi (The dreams of the Elibidis) which was presented at the Zanzibar Film Festival last summer, winning the award assigned by the Italian Cinema Africano di Verona. Nick Reding is an actor from the UK with a long background in film television and theatre. In 2002 he founded Sponsored Arts For Education (S.A.F.E.), a charity working with slum dwellers in Nairobi and other locations in Kenya. SAFE works with young Kenyan artists, producing theatre and films, to challenge stigma and discrimination with a message of compassion solidarity and hope. Kamau Wa Ndung’u grew up in Mathare slum in Nairobi. He has worked as an actor and director in theatre for many years. Kamau has been the creative director for SAFE for the last five years. Ndoto za Elibidi is their first film. The story was devised originally as a stage play with actors from the Nairobi slums. The plot pivots around the theme of acceptance and love as the protagonists – parents, four daughters and their lovers – come to terms with HIV and ghetto life. Cutting back and forth from fiction to documentary, from the original stage play to actual locations, the film takes viewers on two parallel journeys: we watch the story, but we are also watching it through the eyes of the ghetto audience. Southworld has met the two film directors in Verona, where they presented their film at the local Festival of African cinema.
“This movie comes from a theatrical opera, says Kamau, after we performed the play in slums, schools or near a health centre, many asked us to have a DVD, they wanted to watch it again and again. We thought to shoot the theatrical performance and put it on a DVD. Then we thought, why not shooting it in a better way. This is how we developed the idea of this movie”. “The cast of the original play was chosen through an open audition in Nairobi, adds Nick. We wanted to look at a series of issues facing the people in the slum. The play was devised over a six months period and has been performed for over five years in the slums. I think there is quite a lot of information in the movie that usually Europeans are not clear with. Actually, many young people in Europe are confused. They believe that drugs are available and there is a cure. Also the treatment of rape victims, another underlying theme in the movie, is important. So there is information there, and Europeans should not get too complacent and believe they know it all”.
Slum Film Festival – Poster and Logo Contest, May 30 – Jun. 21 2011
Slum Film Festival is a joint project of Embassy of Spain in Kenya, AECID (Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development), Slum TV and Hot Sun Foundation, with the collaboration of the Nairobi Art Centre.
THE CONTEST is open to young people between the ages of 18-30 years with an interest in art and filmmaking. Artists from informal settlements (slums) are encouraged to enter. Professional artist (artists who have e…xhibited their works commercially), including those based in slums, are not eligible.
03/ CATEGORIES
1. Slum Film Festival LOGO. These are going to be digital submissions, designed using any computer design software. The final submission must be saved as JPG, less than 500MB in size and emailed to mercy@hotsunfoundation.org or info@slum-tv.org by the deadlines below. Please add the following title in your submission e-mail: “Slum Film Festival LOGO”.
2. Slum Film Festival POSTER. These submissions should be hard copy (paintings, drawings, sketches, etc) and should be dropped at either: Hot Sun Foundation offices in Kibera, Slum TV offices in Mathare or the Embassy of Spain at CBA Building in UpperHill by the deadlines below.
04/ COPYRIGHT
The COPYRIGHT of each submitted POSTER and LOGO artworks belong to its author. Upon entering the contest, the selected and awarded designers cede the exhibition, publication and copy rights of the pieces to Slum Film Festival and they grant Slum Film Festival the rights to modify, use as is, the winning artworks. The copyright of the winning Artworks will belong to Slum Film Festival and will be considered ‘work for hire’.
05/ PRIZES
LOGO: 1-month Graphic Design class at Kibera Film School. POSTER: 1-month Painting / drawing classes at the Nairobi Art Centre.
06/ KEY DATES
Opening date for entries: 30th May 2011
Closing date for entries: 21st June 2011
Announcement of finalists: 7th July 2011
Awards ceremony and Launch of the Festival (together with press conference): 29th July 2011 at the Embassy of Spain
Film Festival Celebration: 8th – 21st August 2011
07/ HOW TO SIGN UP
– Collect application forms at Hot Sun Foundation, Slum TV offices or at the Embassy of Spain.
– All participants must fill in an application form with their personal information and specify the category in which they want to compete. Only one proposal will be accepted for each category (individually or collectively).
– Participants must submit the a brief explanatory text of the piece (300 words max.)
– Submitted materials must be originals and cannot have been published anywhere prior to the announcement of the contest results.
– Any action taken by a participant violating these conditions will result in immediate disqualification.
– Assessment criteria: The design should meet the vision of Slum Film Festival.
– This contest is open to artists whose works have not been exhibited commercially.
– The artwork submitted must not be offensive in any way.
08/ ORGANIZERS
Slum Film Festival is a joint project of Embassy of Spain in Kenya, AECID (Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development), Slum TV and Hot Sun Foundation, with the collaboration of the Nairobi Art Centre.
PARTICIPATION IN THIS CONTEST IMPLIES THE ACCEPTANCE OF THESE RULES IN FULL.
Out of Town/Festival: 2nd European Film Festival, Jun. 17-19 2011 @ Kisumu Social Centre
Date: June 17-19, 2011
Venue: Kisumu Social Centre
Location: Ondiek Road (Behind Kisumu Bus Terminal)
Time: Friday 6.30pm, Weekend 2 & 4 pm
Entry: Free
Contacts: 0731642726 | alliancekisumu@alliancefrnairobi.org
Participating Countries: Austria, Finland, France, Netherlands & Switzerland
Documentary: “The World according to Monsanto”, Jun 13 2011 @ Alliance
“The World according to Monsanto” (2008, 1h48) , directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental and health scandals. At 6pm at the auditorium of the Alliance Francaise.
Screenings/Movies: Tom Tykwer Film Series, Jun. 7-30 2011 @ Goethe
Dates: June 7-30, 2011 (Tuesdays and Thursdays)
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 6.00 pm
Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Entry: Free
Tom Tykwer was born in 1965 in Wuppertal/Germany. Fascinated by film from an early age, he started making amateur Super-8 films at the age of eleven. After graduating from high school, he moved to Berlin where he started working in the film business. Following the production of two short films, his first full-length feature film Deadly Maria was released in 1993. Many successful movies such as Run Lola Run, The Perfume and The International established Tykwer as one of the most exciting writer-director-composers in European cinema. His current film project is Cloud Atlas, starring Tom Hanks.
Tom Tykwer also co-founded the non-profit organization One Fine Day e.V. which promotes and supports artistic education of youths in developing countries. In this framework Tom Tykwer helped to produce the low-budget film Soul Boy, a FilmAfrika! Project directed by Hawa Essuman which was almost entirely shot in Kibera/Nairobi.
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CinemAlliance: Hope in Lake Turkana, Jun. 6 2011 @ Alliance
CinemAlliance will in the month of June highlight environmental challenges through film-discussions and presentations in association with Pamoja Film Initiative, Dunia Moja Trust, the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD) and the Kenya Wetlands Biodiverstiy Research Group (KENWEB).
The documentaries look at the effects of climate change in Kenya.
Date: June 6, 2011
Time : 6pm
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Entrance Free
June 6, 2011
Hope in Lake Turkana and two shorts on urban waste management in Nairobi and Nakuru, Practical Action documentaries
Out of Town/Festival: 6th European Film Festival, Jun. 2-12 2011 @ Alliance Mombasa
Dates: June 2-12 2011
Venue: Alliance Française de Mombasa Terrace
Location: Freed Building, Moi Avenue/Kwa Shibu Road
Time: 6.30pm daily
Entrance: Free
Contacts: (041) 222 50 48 | infoafmba@africaonline.co.ke
Participating Countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Turkey
Out Of Town: This weekend’s activities @ Lily Pond / Nanyuki
This Weekend at the Lily Pond-Saturday 21st May, 2011
10.30 am -12.30 am Kids’ Art Club using African Paste-Resist Cloth (250Kes)
Mean while order brunch on the deck and also grab a whopping 2mb of free Wi-Fi at the laptop friendly Lily Pond.
7.00 pm Big Screening of the classic movie Casablanca in the Gallery (food and drinks available) 300 Kes
Documentary: The End of a Nation, May 28 2011 @ National Museum
Edtech Strategies in conjunction with The National Museum of Kenya Presents
The End of a Nation. A documentary depicting the heritage of the Dorobo of Southern Kiambu
Date: May 28, 2011
Venue: L. Leakey Auditorium, Kenya National Museum
Time: 11am-4pm
Entry: Free
Also featuring traditional song and dance with discussions facilitated by historical researchers & film makers
‘End of a Nation’ DVDs are currently on sale at the Chania bookshop Ltd along Moi Avenue and at the University of Nairobi bookshop. The DVDs will also be on sale at the launch
For more information contact: 0722 560 783
Out of Town: Saturdays activities @ Lily Pond Arts Centre, Nanyuki
Join the Lily Pond Arts Centre for Saturday Morning activities for children aged 4-12.
Drop in any time from 10.30a.m -12.30p.m. and enjoy brunch on the decking while the totos get arty.
All activities will be subject to a charge of 250 ksh. to cover the cost of materials.
Limited spaces are available and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Free 2Mb Wi-Fi available at the laptop friendly Lily Pond.
Saturday 7th May, 2011 – 7.00pm
The Blues Brothers (1980) on the BIG Screen at the Lily Pond Arts Centre – Nanyuki.
TEDxCinemaNairobi, May 7 2011 @ Westgate
TEDx Cinema – a Gathering for Curious Minds
Free, Saturday 7th May 2011, 10:30am (sharp!) to 12noon, Cinema 6, Westgate Mall, Nairobi
This week’s theme is a behind-the-scenes look at the complex economics and drivers of radical mercenary groups & global crime networks. Insights into the parallel world that exists right in front of us, with their own law, ethics and fully fledged economy. This week’s videos feature:
Once it was easy to know where our money was going. Now we live under a system Loretta Napoleoni has dubbed “rogue economics,” where the blurry histories of the products we consume and the cash we invest make us complicit in financing barely legal credit schemes — and even crime, if it’s the slavery producing the beans for our lattes or the guts of our mobile phones. The reach of the newly global market, as Napoleoni argues in her new book, Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality, connects us all to the dark side, regardless of our intentions to be responsible — and, she says, our deep connection to fishy credit and unregulated finance has laid the groundwork for the current economic crisis.
Journalist Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15% of the global economy. From the Russian mafia, to giant drug cartels, his sources include not just intelligence and law enforcement officials but criminal insiders.
For more information: Farida_sher@yahoo.co.uk; irfan@whiterose.co.ke; salim_keshavjee@yahoo.com;
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CinemAlliance: Traces of the Trade, May 9 2011 @ Alliance
Date: May 9, 2011
Venue: Alliance
Time: 6pm
Entrance: Free
TRACES OF THE TRADE by Katrina Browne (2008 – 1h26)
10th May in France is a National Day of Remembrance of the Abolition of Slavery.
To mark this day Alliance Française and Pamoja Film Initiative present: ‘Traces of the Trade’ The film maker discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain powerful new perspectives on the black/white divide
Movie: Togetherness Supreme
Nathan Collett’s new feature film Togetherness Supreme offers a bright, young, film school-hip view into Kenya’s dark political and social struggles. Funded by Collett’s Hot Sun Foundation, the film showcases locals behind and in front of the camera and is based on a true story of the violent aftermath of Kenya’s 2007 elections in Africa’s largest slum, Kibera.
Last October, at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Togetherness Supreme was described as “Africa’s slum dog without the millionaires.” Surely there are many comparisons to Danny Boyle’s multi-Oscar, multi-award-winning 2008 Slumdog Millionaire. A coming of age story in Kibera, where over half a million slum dwellers struggle to carve out a life while occupying just 6% of the land, Togetherness Supreme follows the lives of three characters from different tribes.
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20th European Film Festival, May 12-29 2011 @ Alliance
Alliance Française will be hosting the 20th edition of the annual European Film Festival this year. The European Film Festival is the longest running Festival in the country and mini-versions do take place at the Alliance Française in Mombasa, Kisumu and Eldoret.
Organized under the auspices of the Delegation of the European Union, the 2011 edition will feature recent films from 15 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.
The European Film Festival showcases rich, diverse and refreshing content from Europe reflecting a multi-cultural 21st century Europe yet preserving historical depth and distinctive characteristics.
Dates: May 12-29, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française
Time: Weekdays 5.30 & 7.30pm and Weekends 3, 5.30 &7.30pm
Tickets: Kshs 30 per movie
This Festival is featuring the most recent films from the member states of the EU, candidate and guest countries.
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Download the 20th European Film Festival programme booklet
Screening: Art:21 (Cindy Sherman and Doris Salcedo), April 26 2011 @ Kuona Trust
At 2pm, on Tuesday April 26th.
Art in the 21st Century is the only series on United States television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists. It was created to make contemporary art more accessible to the public, and to document 21st-century art and artists from the artists’ own perspectives. Their overall goal is to raise the profile of major players in the world of contemporary art and to encourage creativity. Featuring this episode, Doris Salcedo and Cindy Sherman.
Doris Salcedo was born in 1958 in Bogotá, Colombia. Salcedo earned a BFA at Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (1980) and an MA from New York University (1984). Salcedo’s understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World. Although elegiac in tone, her works are not memorials: Salcedo concretizes absence, oppression, and the gap between the disempowered and powerful. While abstract in form and open to interpretation, her works serve as testimonies on behalf of both victims and perpetrators. Even when monumental in scale, her installations achieve a degree of imperceptibility—receding into a wall, burrowed into the ground, or lasting for only a short time. Salcedo’s work reflects a collective effort and close collaboration with a team of architects, engineers, and assistants and—as Salcedo says—with the victims of the senseless and brutal acts to which her work refers. Doris Salcedo lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia.
Cindy Sherman was born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Sherman earned a BA from State University College, Buffalo, New York (1976). In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives lived out of frame. Leaving her works untitled, Sherman refuses to impose descriptive language on her images, relying instead on the viewer’s ability to develop narratives as an essential component of appreciating the work. While rarely revealing her private intentions, Sherman’s investigations have a compelling relationship to public images, from kitsch (film stills and centerfolds) to art history (Old Masters and Surrealism) to green-screen technology and the latest advances in digital photography. Sherman’s exhaustive study of portraiture and self-portraiture—often a playful mixture of camp and horror, heightened by gritty realism—provides a new lens through which to examine societal assumptions surrounding gender and the valuation of concept over style. Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York.
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