African Women Filmmakers Hub invitation to apply for the Trojan Horse Was a Unicorn THU Career Camp

AFRICAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS HUB

PRESS RELEASE

African Women Filmmakers, here's a big opportunity to attend the THU Career Camp digitally, brought to you by the African Women Filmmakers Hub. THU is a Portuguese company looking to diversify all areas of digital entertainment creation.

THE AFRICAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS HUB

Invites you to apply for

The TROJAN HORSE WAS A UNICORN CAREER CAMP

TROJAN HORSE WAS A UNICORN (THU) empowers creators from every area of the digital entertainment industry. This year the focus is on Africa with an exciting invitation to African women digital entertainment creators through the AFRICAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS HUB (AWFH) to participate at the annual THU Career Camp.

To be eligible, you must be early in your career, or have come to a stagnant point in your career and be in red of a breakthrough opportunity. There is no age limit!

Dates for the THU Career Camp are November 11, 12, 13 2020

Opportunities at the Career Camp include:

- career guidance with professionals from international companies

- mentoring

- membership of the THU Tribe, including international companies, for one with further networking opportunities

- job opportunities

If you are involved in gaming, content (film & TV), animation, technical services, visual effects, or any other area of digital entertainment

Apply with your two page profile including the information:

1. Name

2. Age

3. Years of professional experience

4. Current occupation

5. Training

6. Work experience

7. Portfolio or links of you work (if you have one. You may apply without it if you do not)

8. One paragraph about your motivation to be part of the THU Career Camp.

9. Three areas you would like to be mentored in or receive guidance in.

Send a cover email with your profile as a .docx or .pdf attachment (if you have a portfolio, this should be sent in a separate .pdf file)

to: reception@icapatrust.org

by: 1800CAT, Monday 28 October.

with: THU Career Camp and your name in the subject (e.g. THU Career Camp Zama Moyo)

Only successful candidates will be notified.

ALSO SEE ON THE AFRICAN WOMEN IN CINEMA BLOG:

Report on the Launch of African Women Filmmakers Hub (Harare, Zimbabwe)

http://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2016/10/report-on-launch-of-african-women.html

Maïmouna Doucouré talks about her film Mignonnes | Cuties (2020)

Maïmouna Doucouré talks about her film Mignonnes | Cuties

Mignonnes (its English title Cuties) by Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré, premiered at the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section of the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, winning the Directing Award.

Synopsis
Eleven-year-old pre-teen Amy discovers in her new elementary school a group of dancers called: “Les Mignonnes”. Fascinated, she begins a sexy dance, the twerk, hoping to join their band and escape a family upheaval.

The U.S-generated controversy around the film moved the filmmaker to proactively counter the whirl of rightwing untruths and conspiracy-theories by people who have not seen the film, describing it as inciting child pornography and pedophilia. Already on the screens in France since August with no fanfare, it is set to be released in the United States by Netflix in September, against a campaign to remove the film from its streaming service.

The U.S.-made controversy was self-induced by Netflix itself, choosing to promote the U.S. release with a poster, very different from the French one, of the young protagonists scantily-clothed in sexually provocative poses.

One of her discussions of the film and why she made it appears in the Washington Post Opinions section. She introduces it by talking about what triggered her interest in the subject.

I was at a community event in Paris a few years ago when a group of young girls came on the stage dressed and dancing in a very risque way. They were only 11 years old, and their performance was shocking. Curious to understand what was happening on that platform, I spent the next year and a half interviewing more than a hundred 10- and 11-year-old girls across the city.

The result was my movie "Mignonnes," or "Cuties" in English. I wanted to make a film in the hope of starting a conversation about the sexualization of children.

Follow the link to the the entire text: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/cuties-director-maimouna-doucoure-why-i-made-the-film/2020/09/15/7e0ee406-f78b-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html? 

ALSO SEE: Why I made cuties. Interview with Maïmouna Doucouré

16th Mobile Film Festival (2020) : Women's Empowerment

16th Mobile Film Festival (2020) :

Women's Empowerment

PRESS RELEASE

We are launching the call for films for the 16th Mobile Film Festival, whose theme this year is Women's Empowerment

www.mobilefilmfestival.com 

Through this feminist theme, it is the point of view of women on women and female directors that we wish to support.

Our format is pretty unique 1 Mobile, 1 Minute, 1 Film and the call for films is open until October 20, 2020.

We are supported this year by UN Women, YouTube, BNP Paribas, the Women's Forum, Simone Media and Sens Critique and many NGOs around the world.

The jury chaired by the famous French director Agnès Jaoui, will award 7 prizes, among them 2 grants to produce film of 23.000 $ each.

Through this edition, we are looking for committed and militant films.

Here are our social accounts in English.

https://www.youtube.com/mobilefilmfestival

https://www.facebook.com/MobileFilmFestival

https://www.instagram.com/mobilefilmfest

https://twitter.com/MobileFilmFest

https://www.linkedin.com/company/mobile-film-festival

Léa Bouchier Di Benedetto

Communication Assistant

Mobile Film Festival 

Durban FilmMart Virtual Edition 2020 : "Africa's Future is Female - Women Filmmakers on Centring Women in our Narratives"

Durban FilmMart Virtual Edition 2020

7 September 2020 Durban FilmMart South Africa discussion:

"Africa's Future is Female - Women Filmmakers on Centring Women in our Narratives" 

with

Busi Ntintili, Lala Tuku, Gugu Zuma-Ncube

The discussion is paired with two "hangout sessions":

 - SWIFT - Sisters Working in Film and Television: addressing structural inequality in Africa's audiovisual sector

 - Ladima Foundation: building a safer industry

Writer and producer Awa Farah: Somalinimo, Young, British and Somali at Cambridge

Writer and producer Awa Farah: Somalinimo, Young, British and Somali at Cambridge

See the film Somalinimo by Alice Aedy, produced and written by Awa Farah: 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2020/sep/02/somalinimo-somali-culture-blackness-and-islam-at-cambridge-university

Interview by Lindsay Poulton and Jess Gormley

"Somalinimo: young, gifted and Somali... and at Cambridge"

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/02/somalinimo-young-gifted-and-somali-and-at-cambridge-university-documentary

Writer and producer Awa Farah describes her collaboration with film-maker Alice Aedy to express her experiences as a British-Somali woman at Cambridge University in this new documentary

Image: The cast of Cambridge students on the set of Somalinimo. Photograph: Alice Aedy/Girls on Film

La Biennale di Venezia 2020. Kaouther Ben Hania: The Man Who Sold His Skin | L'homme qui a vendu sa peau

La Biennale di Venezia 2020

Kaouther Ben Hania

The Man Who Sold His Skin |

 L'homme qui a vendu sa peau

Tunisia, France

2020

Drama

104 min

Synopsis

The journey of Sam Ali, a Syrian man who fled to Lebanon to escape the Syrian war, hoping to eventually join his lover in Paris.

Sam Ali est un syrien qui s'est enfui au Liban afin d'échapper à la guerre qui ravage son pays et dans l'espoir de rejoindre son amoureux à Paris. Coincé au Liban sans aucun document officiel, Sam commence à travailler dans des galeries d'art de Beyrouth. Il va rencontrer un célèbre artiste américain qui transforme Sam en une œuvre d'art en tatouant un visa sur son dos.

RECENT FILMS. Aisha Jama: Neefso | Breathe (Somalia-USA)

Aisha Jama

Neefso | Breathe
(2020)

Somalia-USA

4 min

Synopsis

Raha’s special day comes to a halt when her anxiety (un)expectedly takes center stage.

Neefso (Breathe) is a micro-short about the everyday coping mechanisms of managing anxiety through the lens of a young Black Muslim woman. This film not only highlights unpredictable nature of anxiety but also the love and support necessary to survive and thrive.

(Source: https://artwithimpact.org/film/neefsobreathe/)

Bio: Aisha Jama

Aisha Jama is filmmaker who has chosen moving images to communicate her understanding of the world around her while she’s still present in it. She is dedicated to creating images and amplifying stories that examine our interiority and offer reprieve.

(Source: https://islamicscholarshipfund.org/recipients/aisha-jama/)