By Ogova Ondego
Published July 1, 2011
Ten Eastern African filmmakers are among 50 audiovisual media practitioners from 16 African countries selected to participate in the 4th Talent Campus Durban in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Ethiopian Eskindir Tefera Mengistu and Yinekachew Shumete Desalegn, Kenyan Zipporah Nyaruri, Peggy Mbiyu and Natasha Likimani, Rwandan Richard Mugwaneza, and Ugandan Agnes Kamya, Joseph Kenneth Ssebaggala and Rehema Nanfuka shall carry the flag of Eastern Africa alongside talents from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Lesotho, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe for a six-day intensive programme of workshops and masterclasses held in the framework of the 32nd Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) that runs July 21-31, 2011 on the theme, ‘Africa in Motion’. The Talent Campus Durban (July 22-26, 2011) also comprises a Doc Station component where three selected talents will receive expert mentoring before pitching their documentary projects to financiers, commissioning editors and potential co-producers within the Durban FilmMart. The three are Kenyan Mbiyu, South African Dylan Valley, and Swazi Nonhlanhla Benji Dlamini.
All the talents, said to have been ‘selected through a rigorous application process’, will also be expected to attend film shows and events at the 32nd DIFF.
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Talent Campus Durban is a partnership project between the Durban International Film Festival in cooperation with the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Berlin International Film Festival.
Below is the complete line up of participants at the 4th Talent Campus Durban:
Kitso Lynn Lelliott, Botswana
Eudes Narcisse Wandji Ngassa, Cameroon
Lassina Koné, Côte D’ivoire
Ahmed Ghonemi, Egypt
Nadine Salib Abdel Said, Egypt
Eskindir Tefera Mengistu, Ethiopia
Yinekachew Shumete Desalegn, Ethiopia
Cedric Ido, France
Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ghana
Kwaku Duah Prempeh, Ghana
Natasha Likimani, Kenya
Peggy Mbiyu, Kenya (also in Doc Station Durban)
Zipporah Nyaruri, Kenya
Thabiso Mohapeloa, Lesotho
Coulibaly Daouda, Mali
Bodunrin Iruemiobe, Nigeria
Peter Chidiebere Omewiri – Pius, Nigeria
Mugwaneza Richard, Rwanda
Anel Alexander, South Africa
Anthonie Van Der Walt, South Africa
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Calum Macnaughton, South Africa
Duduetsang Makuse, South Africa
Dylan Valley, South Africa (also in Doc Station Durban)
Gavillan Letsoalo, South Africa
Guy Sclanders, South Africa
Jarryn Katia, South Africa
Jonathan Caramanus , South Africa
Kyle Lewis, South Africa
Mandilakhe Yengo, South Africa
Mark Edwards, South Africa
Matthew Jankes, South Africa
Molefi Lebone, South Africa
Mthokozisi Lembethe, South Africa
Padraic O’meara, South Africa
Rishane Rajkoomar, South Africa
Rudzani Muthambi, South Africa
Sean Drummond, South Africa
Tiny Mungwe, South Africa
Tshegohatso Molete, South Africa
Yashvir Bagwandeen, South Africa
Zachariah Rapola, South Africa
Nonhlanhla Benji Dlamini, Swaziland (also in Doc Station Durban)
Agnes Kamya, Uganda
Joseph Kenneth Ssebaggala, Uganda
Rehema Nanfuka, Uganda
Lydia “Sue-Ellen” Chitunya, Zimbabwe
Rudo Chakanyuka, Zimbabwe
Simon De Swardt, Zimbabwe.
