Cinema Spaces Network presents: SUPER SOLAR POWERED ACTIONS!
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| Free of charge |
| Language info for each film below in the text. |
| English |
| Mechanical Arena in the Foyer |
| Part of: AFRIKAMERA |
Cinema Spaces Network presents:
SUPER SOLAR POWERED ACTIONS!
- a short film loop, curated for AFRIKAMERA 2022 by Manyatta Screenings, Kenya
- Live interactions with the Sunbox-Ambassadors (South Africa)
Neo Mosoang and Rejoyce Kgabo Legodi represent SUNSHINE CINEMA, Africa’s first solar powered cinema network, operating in the rural areas across South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi. They will talk about their experiences, share films about their work and answer your questions…
10.11.: 16:00, 17:00, 18:00, 19:00 h
11.11.: 17:00, 18:00, 19:00, 20:00 h
12.11.: 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00 h
13.11.: 15:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00 h
The CINEMA SPACES NETWORK (CSN) is a project aiming to strengthen cinema infrastructures in Africa. Based on the principles of sharing expertise, knowledge and networks, experienced cinema initiatives regularly meet to develop practical concepts and strategies to re-think cinema as a cultural and social hub with site-specific programs, events, audience-building activities. This includes e.g. a new distribution project for African films, solar-powered screening techniques and much more. Our active members are based in Kenya, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Senegal, Nigeria. The CSN was initiated by Humboldt Forum in 2020.
Find out more on: https://cinemaspacesnetwork.net/
SUNSHINE CINEMA is Africa’s first solar powered cinema network, operating in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The screenings mainly take place outdoors. Sunshine Cinema adresses youth unemployment through a Sunbox Ambassadorship program by training young people to be media facilitators equipping them with a mobile, solar cinema kit called “The Sunbox”. The Ambassadors mobilise their communities to spark conversation and actively promote the events, inspired by the power of African films. Two Ambassadors will attend AFRIKAMERA and present their work: Rejoyce Legodi, Spark Impact Facilitator trainee and Neo Mosoang, Graduate Spark Impact Facilitator.
Find out more on: https://sunshinecinema.org/
AMAZING GRACE, Documentary by Sydelle Smith & Rowan Pybus (South Africa / 2012 / 04:53min /English / English subtitles)
SYNOPSIS
Lloyd has a tenuous relationship with forests. He lives in Zambia, where most people rely on charcoal for fuel. In order to survive he has been a charcoal burner for many years, cutting down thousands of trees. We follow him on his personal journey as he addresses the destruction he has caused, opts to stop burning charcoal for a living, and sets up a micro-nursery selling trees to his neighbouring community instead. This short film offers a brief window into his journey and his deep-seated love for rapidly decreasing forests of Livingstone.
DIRECTOR BIO
Rowan Pybus is an impact campaign specialist from South Africa. His work for the last 20 years has been focused on social and environmental development. He founded Makhulu Media in 2005 to create film stories that matter and is the Co-Founder of Sunshine Cinema. In the course of his career, he has won awards from the UN Forum on Forests, National Geographic, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, and is a Salzburg Global Fellow.
Sydelle Willow Smith is a storyteller and co-founder of Sunshine Cinema based in Cape Town, South Africa. She holds a Masters of Social Science in African Studies from The University of Oxford and is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity. She is passionate about audience engagement and experimenting with modes of public participation. It is within the context of public participation that she has drawn together her interests in media, anthropology, and socio-political interventions. Smith & Pybus started Sunshine Cinema as a result of their film Amazing Grace. Wanting to share the film in the communities in which they worked but lacking the infrastructure, they started Sunshine Cinema, Africa’s first solar-powered media distribution network.
LOVE & BRAIN, Dramedy by Semagngeta Aychiluhem (Ethiopia / 2019 / 03:33 min /Amharic / English Subtitles)
SYNOPSIS
After a shocking discovery by a scientist about the health benefits of eating a Zombie’s brain, everything changed. The world was never the same. Humans started hunting Zombies by any means necessary and destroyed the world in the process. The film follows a Zombie, Abu, who is hunted by a human for his brain.
DIRECTOR BIO
Semagngeta Aychiluhem is an award-winning producer/director and writer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is interested in stories that start conversations and show different perspectives. He believes in creating an African cinema industry that tells international stories from an African perspective. Semagngeta runs a company called Guzo films. He is currently developing his first feature film titled A Farmer, A Traitor, A General and A Queen and a comedy TV series titled Love and Brain. He was recently awarded the top prize at 2020 IEFTA’s Global Film Expression’s conference.
SCALP DEEP, Drama/ Animation by Naseeba Bagalaaliwo (Uganda / 2020 / 06:40 min /Luganda, English / English subtitles)
SYNOPSIS
Hair and constructions of identity are often deeply intertwined. Influenced by the intersections of African hair, femininity and personal identity, “Scalp Deep” captures the struggles of a young African woman as she navigates the reactions and expectations of others after she decides to commit to a new look.
DIRECTOR BIO
Naseeba is an emerging filmmaker from Uganda. Scalp Deep is her first animated short film, and was made with the support of a grant from the Goethe Institute.
Naseeba is passionate about representation in the media and telling impactful yet entertaining stories that don’t shy away from the unique experiences and struggles of women. Naseeba is a graduate of Durham University where she studied law and politics. She is an alumna of the Africa Kommt! Fellowship for Young Leaders from sub-Saharan Africa and spent her fellowship working with the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Stuttgart.
A KALABANDA ATE MY HOMEWORK, Comedy/ Animation by Raymond Malinga (Uganda / 2017 / 06:35 min/ English / No Subtitles)
SYNOPSIS
A Kalabanda is a mythical creature that is said to haunt schools in Uganda. Tendo, a pupil shows up to class one day without homework claiming that a “Kalabanda” ate it. Who would believe such a lame excuse? No-one! How will Tendo prove his story? The story brings a Ugandan twist to the popular excuse “a dog ate my homework”.
DIRECTOR BIO
Raymond Malinga achieved a Bachelor’s Degree in Animation and Visual Effects from Multimedia University Cyberjaya Malaysia. His graduation short film White Collar Time, earned him several accolades in several International student film award competitions. In 2014 he decided to quit his job and return to start his journey towards making an impact on the local and continental animation industry in Africa. He has years of experience working in the local professional animation field as the CEO of the Creatures Animation Studio in Kampala, Uganda which has produced the award winning animated short A Kalabanda ate my homework.
MALAIKA, Comedy by David Waronja (Kenya / 2019 / 07:00 / Kikuyu / English Subtitles)
SYNOPSIS
Kamunge comes face to face with the Angel of Death moments before his death. For his kindness, she gives him more time so he can take her around his hometown. Kamunge finds an opportunity to save himself and takes it.
DIRECTOR BIO
David Waronja is a 27-year-old writer, director, cinematographer and editor based in Kiambu, Kenya. He’s been making films for the past 6 years.
ABBAS – The Sudanese Migrant Dilemma, Documentary by Mustafa Zeyo (Sudan / 2022/ 07:57 / / Arabic/ English Subtitles)
SYNOPSIS
In a tragic atmosphere, young Sudanese migrants at the French / UK borders, seek opportunities to have an adequate life but can’t find security even after their long journey.
DIRECTOR BIO
Mustafa Zeyo, a filmmaker, musician and music producer, born in Sudan, studied at the Medical School at Madani. The documentary Abbas is his film debut. He is currently based in Berlin, developing a musical project.
