The Eleventh edition of the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) is in full swing, with both industry delegates and cinema lovers rid...
The Eleventh edition of the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) is in full swing, with both industry delegates and cinema lovers riding a wave of excitement following the coming ten days’
activities, and looking forward to another 8 days of local and international discussion panels,
workshops, Ten days of screenings of the best local and international cinema and evenings of
musical concerts including a Gala each evening.
The festival,July 11-20, 2008,is an all-arts affair, with all its programs culminated of realising the capacity of film to fuse together the best of each art-form, offering a wide range of Entertainment, Educating, Shopping, and Networking options for world audiences.
The festival centre is located in the beautiful stone town area in Zanzibar. The main location of
the festival is an atmospheric Amphitheatre located inside an Old Fort. Other venues are
Mambo Club, House of Wonders, Old Customs House, Palace Museum, Aecrotanal, Chake Chake and Wete Cinema in Pemba.
On the Red Carpet opening ceremony, the evening of July 11 at the-amphitheatre, considered by
industry insiders and the international entertainment press to be either "the" or "among
the" preeminent open air venues on Earth, the sky would be the stage as Zanzibar witnesses one of the grandest celebrations with a Night Glow spectacle, the Opening Night surely set the tone
for a festival fever.
A-List tributes and special events also contribute to making this year's Festival a must-see for the thousands affluent lovers of great arts and graceful living who travel to Zanzibar for the event.
The hottest Nollywood film star, Ramsey Noah, a distinguished performer, amongst his best films include Rip Off, Dangerous Twins, When Love Dies, Iru Oka, The Pope Must Hear This and Blind Trust, is a Special Guest of the festival. Ramsey is also undertaking an Acting for the camera Workshop in Tanzania and well as attend a gala evening in his honour. The heart-throb has dragged audiences to Zanzibar.
To top it up the festival wishes to recognise excellence across the world, it brings the best
Mexican actor alive and Oscar nominee Gael Bernal Garcia (the star of "Y Tu Mama Tambien," "Bad Education," "Babel," and "The Motorcycle Diaries). His anticipated visit has reactivated
Latin American ties with Africa and he will also conduct acting and directing workshops during
ZIFF.
Each festival evening begins with the Festival of Festivals, welcomes festivals, TV stations and
different programmers to showcase their works and discuss them with audiences. cocktails in the sunset splendour of the House of Wonders. It leads on to the presentation of the main films of
the day at the Amphitheatre in the Old Fort.
Screening 50 films from an impressive collection of studio and independent features that enthral
and top notch documentaries that captivate and inform audiences. This year festival has created
space for four of the newest offerings to world cinema- 4 World Premieres. showcasing African
Premieres, including the most talked about films coming out of Africa recently Namibia: The
Struggle for Liberation (2007) and Ezra (2006) the winner of the Etalon Yenenga at FESPACO 2007.
The FESPACO 2007 package, composed of all winning films at that Premier Film festival of Africa also presented.
Incorporating film competitions with 4 international juries, The ZIFF Jury awards the
Golden Dhow to the Best Film of the Festival while FIPRESCI (The Federation of International
Film Critics) awards the best Feature Film at the festival. SIGNIS (World Catholic Association for Communication) awards the Best Documentary. The Sembene Development Film Award, a new award celebrates the role of film in development. The award is financed and managed by ZIFF, SACOD (Southern Africa Communication for Development)
and GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH). The $5000 Prize awards the best film on the theme of development and will go a long way towards enhancing creativity in African film production.
Music lovers have a lot to look forward, a total 20 entertaining groups from across the world
working to the theme of fusion, African beats-the world’s greatest pop vocalist, Salif Keita, and
Western musical treats - a true cultural crossroad! Invited groups of performing artists
from overseas working with local groups in workshops prior to the festival to create a
cultural fusion through music exchanges Along with entertainment, shopping, networking,
educating as one of the main attractions of Ziff festival, instituted a number of forums,
including New Media Brain Trust : “New Media & Africa: Making It Work in the 21st Century” a
Special event at the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) founded on the principles
exemplified in the ZIFF credo, ‘Cultural Crossroads.’ organized by ZIFF, NBPC and other
partners bring together the big thinkers and entrepreneurs, technologists and journalists, and
Millennial and NGOs from USA and Africa to talk about delivery and production models for opening up opportunities for an exchange of ideas and open dialogue about new media usage, production and content and its effects on the global perceptions on Africa and in an African context.
The Difficult Dialogues: This Live-Talk-Show is a rare opportunity that prizes pen the silent zone that Zanzibar sometimes becomes. The turbulence of mixing diverse cultures, which sometimes turns violent, is also examined. ZIFF meets controversy head-on drawing attention to the value of memory, history and culture to all humanity.
As it celebrate the arts the panoramas- The Women, Children and Village Panoramas have become the quintessential platform that serves the Ziff festival in its advocacy role. The three
panoramas showcase development activities through various media and offer space for sharing views and experiences, to learn new skills and resolve conflicts. ZIFF enters every home and public space allowing people to offer views, opinions and assume responsibility for finding solutions.
Soko Filam: The new business component of ZIFF aims at promoting, marketing and distributing regional art and cultural products. For the first time ZIFF welcomes the illustrious but also dare devil sons of African film industry- NOLLYWOOD. A major Forum set up to discuss the merits of this controversial production and distribution system that has captivated the rest of Africa and The First Tanzania Film Value Chain Study will also be presented for discussion.
The House of Wonders has also become resplendent markets as part of the Soko Filam program, with 80 pavilions from all over the region and an array of family attractions, the Soko filam-products market best represents the ZIFF popular theme of “Cultural Crossroads.” the
pavilions bring alive the unique skills of artistes from around the region, offering an immeasurable choice of cultural artifacts where the Nigeria’s own Nollwood will also descend on
this tiny Island has offered what it has already offered the rest of Africa- thousands and
thousands of films that have now captured the video and Television markets in all Africa.
These Cultural Crossroads stimulate the creative connection between our inner being and the outer world, bring people closer to one another, reminding us who we are, posing development
opportunities to artists and other stakeholders to understand multicultural diversity, enable
people to understand others’ cultural values and beliefs. These crossroads move the festival
audience to laugh, to cry, to pause and wonder about the human experience while also offering
great benefits in motivation, creativity, efficiency and productivity.
With this year’s festival emphasis on exploring new ways to turn creativity in community into
sustainable cultural industries, promote cultural diversity, support economic development and
encourage job creation in the stunning island of Zanzibar, ZIFF has opened the way for a new era of organizing festivals highlighting on Zanzibar’s leading role as a regional hub for tourism and art and cultural products shopping with its state-of-the-art infrastructure
facilities.
The11th ZIFF is the Festival as you’ve never seen
it before! ZIFF ALIVE!
Check us out@ http://www.ziff.or.tz/
Let your friends, neighbors know that
YOU WANT TO ATTEND THE 11th Ziff Festival from
11th to 20th July 2008!
Experience the festival difference!
activities, and looking forward to another 8 days of local and international discussion panels,
workshops, Ten days of screenings of the best local and international cinema and evenings of
musical concerts including a Gala each evening.
The festival,July 11-20, 2008,is an all-arts affair, with all its programs culminated of realising the capacity of film to fuse together the best of each art-form, offering a wide range of Entertainment, Educating, Shopping, and Networking options for world audiences.
The festival centre is located in the beautiful stone town area in Zanzibar. The main location of
the festival is an atmospheric Amphitheatre located inside an Old Fort. Other venues are
Mambo Club, House of Wonders, Old Customs House, Palace Museum, Aecrotanal, Chake Chake and Wete Cinema in Pemba.
On the Red Carpet opening ceremony, the evening of July 11 at the-amphitheatre, considered by
industry insiders and the international entertainment press to be either "the" or "among
the" preeminent open air venues on Earth, the sky would be the stage as Zanzibar witnesses one of the grandest celebrations with a Night Glow spectacle, the Opening Night surely set the tone
for a festival fever.
A-List tributes and special events also contribute to making this year's Festival a must-see for the thousands affluent lovers of great arts and graceful living who travel to Zanzibar for the event.
The hottest Nollywood film star, Ramsey Noah, a distinguished performer, amongst his best films include Rip Off, Dangerous Twins, When Love Dies, Iru Oka, The Pope Must Hear This and Blind Trust, is a Special Guest of the festival. Ramsey is also undertaking an Acting for the camera Workshop in Tanzania and well as attend a gala evening in his honour. The heart-throb has dragged audiences to Zanzibar.
To top it up the festival wishes to recognise excellence across the world, it brings the best
Mexican actor alive and Oscar nominee Gael Bernal Garcia (the star of "Y Tu Mama Tambien," "Bad Education," "Babel," and "The Motorcycle Diaries). His anticipated visit has reactivated
Latin American ties with Africa and he will also conduct acting and directing workshops during
ZIFF.
Each festival evening begins with the Festival of Festivals, welcomes festivals, TV stations and
different programmers to showcase their works and discuss them with audiences. cocktails in the sunset splendour of the House of Wonders. It leads on to the presentation of the main films of
the day at the Amphitheatre in the Old Fort.
Screening 50 films from an impressive collection of studio and independent features that enthral
and top notch documentaries that captivate and inform audiences. This year festival has created
space for four of the newest offerings to world cinema- 4 World Premieres. showcasing African
Premieres, including the most talked about films coming out of Africa recently Namibia: The
Struggle for Liberation (2007) and Ezra (2006) the winner of the Etalon Yenenga at FESPACO 2007.
The FESPACO 2007 package, composed of all winning films at that Premier Film festival of Africa also presented.
Incorporating film competitions with 4 international juries, The ZIFF Jury awards the
Golden Dhow to the Best Film of the Festival while FIPRESCI (The Federation of International
Film Critics) awards the best Feature Film at the festival. SIGNIS (World Catholic Association for Communication) awards the Best Documentary. The Sembene Development Film Award, a new award celebrates the role of film in development. The award is financed and managed by ZIFF, SACOD (Southern Africa Communication for Development)
and GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH). The $5000 Prize awards the best film on the theme of development and will go a long way towards enhancing creativity in African film production.
Music lovers have a lot to look forward, a total 20 entertaining groups from across the world
working to the theme of fusion, African beats-the world’s greatest pop vocalist, Salif Keita, and
Western musical treats - a true cultural crossroad! Invited groups of performing artists
from overseas working with local groups in workshops prior to the festival to create a
cultural fusion through music exchanges Along with entertainment, shopping, networking,
educating as one of the main attractions of Ziff festival, instituted a number of forums,
including New Media Brain Trust : “New Media & Africa: Making It Work in the 21st Century” a
Special event at the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) founded on the principles
exemplified in the ZIFF credo, ‘Cultural Crossroads.’ organized by ZIFF, NBPC and other
partners bring together the big thinkers and entrepreneurs, technologists and journalists, and
Millennial and NGOs from USA and Africa to talk about delivery and production models for opening up opportunities for an exchange of ideas and open dialogue about new media usage, production and content and its effects on the global perceptions on Africa and in an African context.
The Difficult Dialogues: This Live-Talk-Show is a rare opportunity that prizes pen the silent zone that Zanzibar sometimes becomes. The turbulence of mixing diverse cultures, which sometimes turns violent, is also examined. ZIFF meets controversy head-on drawing attention to the value of memory, history and culture to all humanity.
As it celebrate the arts the panoramas- The Women, Children and Village Panoramas have become the quintessential platform that serves the Ziff festival in its advocacy role. The three
panoramas showcase development activities through various media and offer space for sharing views and experiences, to learn new skills and resolve conflicts. ZIFF enters every home and public space allowing people to offer views, opinions and assume responsibility for finding solutions.
Soko Filam: The new business component of ZIFF aims at promoting, marketing and distributing regional art and cultural products. For the first time ZIFF welcomes the illustrious but also dare devil sons of African film industry- NOLLYWOOD. A major Forum set up to discuss the merits of this controversial production and distribution system that has captivated the rest of Africa and The First Tanzania Film Value Chain Study will also be presented for discussion.
The House of Wonders has also become resplendent markets as part of the Soko Filam program, with 80 pavilions from all over the region and an array of family attractions, the Soko filam-products market best represents the ZIFF popular theme of “Cultural Crossroads.” the
pavilions bring alive the unique skills of artistes from around the region, offering an immeasurable choice of cultural artifacts where the Nigeria’s own Nollwood will also descend on
this tiny Island has offered what it has already offered the rest of Africa- thousands and
thousands of films that have now captured the video and Television markets in all Africa.
These Cultural Crossroads stimulate the creative connection between our inner being and the outer world, bring people closer to one another, reminding us who we are, posing development
opportunities to artists and other stakeholders to understand multicultural diversity, enable
people to understand others’ cultural values and beliefs. These crossroads move the festival
audience to laugh, to cry, to pause and wonder about the human experience while also offering
great benefits in motivation, creativity, efficiency and productivity.
With this year’s festival emphasis on exploring new ways to turn creativity in community into
sustainable cultural industries, promote cultural diversity, support economic development and
encourage job creation in the stunning island of Zanzibar, ZIFF has opened the way for a new era of organizing festivals highlighting on Zanzibar’s leading role as a regional hub for tourism and art and cultural products shopping with its state-of-the-art infrastructure
facilities.
The11th ZIFF is the Festival as you’ve never seen
it before! ZIFF ALIVE!
Check us out@ http://www.ziff.or.tz/
Let your friends, neighbors know that
YOU WANT TO ATTEND THE 11th Ziff Festival from
11th to 20th July 2008!
Experience the festival difference!
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