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Welcome to the Zanzibar International Film Festival newsletter. Less than 2 weeks to go to what is going to be a great festival! This week we're looking at East African films - two of which are premiering at ZIFF 2011. Also reggae-dancehall legend, Shaggy has been confirmed for Amani Stadium!
The full Events Calendar is now up on the website. Check it out and start planning -
http://www.ziff.or.tz/events
East African and Bongo films an exciting part of ZIFF 2011 program
ZIFF is an international festival, but with a real local flavour. As a representative of the rich cultural heritage of the Dhow countries and East Africa, ZIFF ensures that a substantial part of the program is devoted to East African cinema, including many Swahili language films
The
Mambo Club will be showing Swahili films every second day throughout the festival and Friday 24th June will be a devotedly Swahili & Bongo Film Day at all the festival venues. There will be two East African film World Premieres to look forward to at ZIFF 2011 –
Glamour and
The Ray of Hope.
Zanzibar’s first high quality
Bongo Movie,
Glamour tells the story of young Zanzibari girl who dreams of becoming a model and her trials and tribulations as she leaves her conservative Muslim home to peruse her glamorous new career in the big city, Dar Es Salaam.
Starring one of Tanzania’s top models,
Eva Issac, and celebrated Tanzania couturier,
Mustafa Hassanali, this is the film that will undoubtedly appeal to the masses in a country filled with beauty pageants and where becoming a model is a dream of many.
The Ray of Hope is an engaging film about a young woman who has to fight for her right to work after learning that she has contracted the AIDS virus. The film is produced by Pili Pili Entertainment whose film
Nani won Best Film Award in ZIFF 2010 and was selected for Cannes International Pan African Film Festival in France in April 2011.
With films, documentaries and shorts from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, there are 20 East African films showing at ZIFF demonstrating the festival’s commitment to supporting the growing film industry in East Africa and promoting it on an international scale.
The Opening Ceremony of ZIFF 2011 is on Saturday18th June.
A great family night out in the magnificent Old Fort, the Opening Ceremony signals the start of 10 days of artistic festivities on the island of Zanzibar. Capturing Swahili culture reverie, complete with incense burning and perfume spraying, the celebrations include the raising of the Festival Dhow to signify its launch. An exciting line-up of local performances adorn the start of the festival and the concert that follows gives festival-goers a taste of ZIFF 2011, showcasing talented traditional and contemporary artists. After the ceremony, the audience can enjoy the opening film and premiere – Ugandan film ‘Making The Band’
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