Lola Kenya Screen

About Lola Children’s Screen Kenya

Lola Kenya Screen (aka Lola Kenya Children’s Screen) is an annual festival, market and production workshop for children and young adults.

Lola Kenya Screen, whose first name is derived from the widely spoken African Bantu language word meaning ‘watch’, ‘see’ or ‘look’, seeks to cultivate sustainable audiences for cinema, inculcating in people the culture of producing quality films, and watching and marketing audiovisual productions. It focuses on films of all genres.

Dates

The first edition of Lola Kenya children’s Screen will run August 7-12, 2006, in Nairobi.

Film entry DEADLINE is April 15, 2006.

Objectives

To build an audience for films by encouraging audience-sensitive films

To develop a film resource centre to benefit seekers of information on cinema

To train young talents to further their expertise in film art

To produce quality, low-budget, short films annually from training workshops

To hold monthly film fora for players in the audiovisual media sector for networking

Awards

Initially, awards will be presented to Best Short Film, Best Children’s Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Audience’s Favourite Film.

Festival Staff

Ogova Ondego, CEO & Festival Director

Bobastles Owino Nondih, Festival Manager

Advisory Board

Working with this team for the success of Lola Kenya Screen is an advisory board made up of leading voices on arts and culture in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Partnership

Lola Kenya Screen welcomes partners and sponsors from individuals and organisations all over the world.

Contact Details

CEO & Festival Director
Lola Kenya Children’s Screen
Philadelphia (Old East) House, 4th Floor
Tom Mboya Street/Hakati Road junction
Tel: 254 20 213318, 254 20 315258, 254 733 703374 Email: film@artmatters.info
P O Box 842 – 00208 Ngong Hills
Nairobi, Kenya (EA).