BY OGOVA ONDEGO. NAIROBI, KENYA (CINEMA MINIMA) —.
Lola Kenya Screen, the annual international audiovisual media platform—festival, production workshop and market—for children and youth in eastern Africa held in Nairobi every second week of August, has changed its festival dates from August 4-9, 2008 to August 11-16, 2008.
In a Press Statement released in Germany on June 3, 2008, Lola Kenya Screen explained the change has been ocassioned by ‘unscheduled change in the holiday calendar of public schools in Kenya. Lola Kenya Screen regrets this change but cannot help it as our primary target audience are holidaying school-going children and youth.’
Lola Kenya Screen is represented at the bi-annual Prix Jeunesse festival in Munich, Germany. It is one of various projects of Prix Jeunesse and the only one from Africa in 2008. Also presented at this world’s leading television programmes for children and youth is AFRICAN FOLK TALES ANIMATED, the DVD compilation of short films made by children during the annual Lola Kenya Screen film production workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2007.
Lola Kenya Screen has also announced the short-listing of applicants to its various skill-development programmes and selected films from 52 nations. The organisation will release its festival line up to the media in Nairobi on June 10, 2008.
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