The Arts-Muse Fair

If you frame your world through camera angles, narrate reality like a movie script, and edit the montage of your life like a film director, then here’s a flash-forward into your future – MultiChoice Africa is calling all aspiring film directors, DOPs, sound guys, and scriptwriters to enter for the MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF) and help ignite Africa’s creative industries. Who knows, perhaps one day your name will be rolling across the closing credits on DStv channels.  MultiChoice Africa is recruiting aspiring African talent to gain theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience in cinematography, film editing, audio production and storytelling. Sixty talented students from 13 African countries will get the chance to hone their film and television production skills alongside industry greats. This year-long, funded, programme will be supported by MultiChoice Talent Factory academies hosted in Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. Students will create quality local content that will ...

Application deadline: 20 th  January, 2018 Are you a young African filmmaker looking for an international training platform to develop your new documentary film project? DOK.fest München together with the Cultural Department of the City of Munich and in cooperation with the University for Television and Film Munich (HFF) offers a Residency Programme accompanied by training in scriptwriting, financing and pitching.  The Residency at Ebenböckhaus (2 nd  March – 14 th  May, 2018) The DOK.network Africa residency is aimed at supporting filmmakers from African countries to develop their feature-length narrative documentary film projects at the international level. Thanks to our funding partners we can offer two scholarships including travel costs to and from Munich, a mentoring and training programme, monthly allowance of 1,200 Euros and accommodation in the artist-in-residence premises at the Ebenböckhaus of the City of Munich. The residency programme wil...

By Editor Dancing Mask-The ANA story, a documentary film by Box Office Studios, has been selected by organisers of the West African Film Festival for screening next month at the festival which holds at the University of Houston, Texas, US. Dancing Mask is a documentary film about the history and activities of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) founded in 1981 by Professors Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka and other first generation Nigerian writers to serve as the umbrella body of writers in Nigeria.   Daniel John Tukura, Director of Dancing Mask  The documentary, which chronicles the chequered times that marked ANA’s growth from a small group to being the largest writers union in Africa, was funded by the Association with the support of the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA), Ghana. Tukura John Daniel, Nigerian filmmaker and director of Dancing Mask says the selection of the film by the West African Film Festival is good news to ANA and his pr...

Anas Balarabe Yazid is an Academic and entrepreneur concerned with finding solutions to the problems of his community. He lives in Kano, the centre of Kannywood, the Hausa-themed film industry that is second to the Nollywood. Sales revenue from films is heavily diminished by piracy, which offers cheaper, bootlegged versions of the original films to the public. This shrinks investors’ returns on investment, voiding sales projections and boosting the pirates’ pockets. Certis , Mr. Yazid’s company has launched YodaCine , a new technological innovation to solve this age long problem of piracy. The Yoda innovation has already brought Mr. Yazid recognition from the British Council and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for its use in promoting schooling by providing access to books by pupils and students. Anas Yazid speaking at the launch of YodaCine last week in Kano Collaborating with Motion Picture Production Ltd, Certis created the Kannywood Box Off...