Mama Afrika Film Festival 2018
Applicant criteria
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
Mama Afrika Film Festival mission is to celebrate and showcase women in the arts. The mandate of the Festival is to:
[1] Facilitate interaction between women artists or creative and their audiences.
[2] Support and encourage women to join the creative industry.
[3] Increase the exposure of new creative works made by women or about women issues.
[4] Showcase women ‘s creative work to the Kenyan and international world for exposure.
[5] Provide opportunities for professional development.
[6] Provide a marketplace for the film industry.
[7] Develop and offer youth programs to develop the next generation of women creatives.
The Mama Afrika Film Festival theme for this year is: Legendary Women. Therefore it will play a crucial role in providing a range of truthful depictions of women as change agents and screening examples of women on screen that are smart, resilient, and inspiring. The festival will provide an empowering journey to show the public, girls, women and young aspiring filmmakers that there can be an alternative to the limited and limiting female role models offered in mainstream media.
The festival will be held in Nairobi. Mama Afrika Film Festival believes today’s film students lead to tomorrow’s world-renowned filmmakers. Daily screenings will be at the Multimedia University of Kenya, Kenyatta University and the Kenya Institute of Mass Communications.
The Festival theme nights will give the guests a cultural night celebrating films and culture and culinary delights of particular countries. The opening ceremony consists of artistic performances and a cocktail party. The closing ceremony is a gala event for presenting awards to filmmakers and.
The different categories of films participating in the festival are:
[1] Full length features.
[2] Short Films.
[3] Documentary Films.
[4] Animation Films.
Note: In the film competition, the various categories are awarded.
Rules of participation in the festival:
[1] The films must be by Africans or about African gender issues from around the world
[2] Submission copies must be PAL format DVD. An English language track or subtitled version is required.