Cinetoile Project: Amakula Kampala Cultural Foundation

Uganda Tue 16-03-2010

Cinetoile Project: Amakula Kampala Cultural Foundation
By Sarah Nsigaye

Amakula Kampala Cultural Foundation under its Amakula Mobile Cinema project announces the launch of Cinetoile Project in March 25 and 26, 2010 at Sharing Youth Centre, Nsambya. Film Screenings are at 7pm.

The ceremony will be presided over by H.E. Vincent De Visscher, the Head of European Union Delegation, sponsor of Cinetoile.

Cinetoile is an initiative of Belgium-based Africalia and supported by the European Union with the aim of encouraging the promotion and distribution of African cinema in Africa, where it is ironically barely seen at all.

The initiative operates in eight African countries including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mali, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Congo and Zimbabwe seeking to provide access of films to unprivileged audiences with little or no access to film.

Cinetoile partners have obtained the distribution rights of 5 African films, selected because of their cinematic quality, which will be shown in 10 communities in each of the 8 partner countries.

The five films are Samba Traore by Idrissa Quedraogo (Burkina Faso),From a Whisper by Wanuri Kahiu (Kenya), Lumumba by Raoul Peck (Haiti/France), Mah Saah- Sah by Daniel Kamwa (Cameroon) and Heritage by Kwaw P. Anshah (Ghana).

Acclaimed Kenyan director, Ms. Wanuri Kahiu, whose award winning film From a Whisper is one of the five selected films, will be present to introduce her film.

During the Cinetoile launch, a workshop will be presented which will seek to open the dialogue between filmmakers, and owners of video halls and video libraries.

A guide to the workshop will be The Tanzanian Film Values Chain Study Report conducted byDr. Martin Mhando, professor at Murdoch University, Australia, filmmaker and Director of Zanzibar International Film Festival.

For more information, contact:

Sarah Nsigaye, Cinteoile Country Coordinator. Mobile: 0772-408257.
Moses Serugo, Public Relations Manager, Amakula Kampala Cultural Foundation. Mobile: 0712-291973.

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