Great STORYTELLING IN AFRICA: FUTURE TRENDS panel discussion at Africa Tech Summit Kigali !!! I am truly grateful for the experience: having been invited to design and moderate this discussion with my great panelists, fellow filmmakers @regisheja @cynthiabutare @sharangabombabazi & inanga innovator @munyakazideo was a challenge, but the outcome felt so rewarding !!! We will come back next year with a bigger, more crazy, more immersive concept… see you soon !!! Shout out to @akomanet for inviting me to share my vision !!! ✨ – Kantarama
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“WHAT KIND OF MOVIE WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE IF THE WORLD WAS YOURS!?!” said HAILE GERIMA today in his masterclass. Thank you International Film Festival Rotterdam for the Pan-African Cinema Today (PACT) program! ✨🌍🎬🔥 📷 from “La Noire de…” masterpiece by Sembène Ousmane – Kantarama
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December 2017 Ending the year in style! Proud, as a member of the Jury, to present the filmmakers with their award, in company of the talented NatGeo photographer Reza Deghati! Congratulations to all the filmmakers trying to raise awareness!✨ WINNER 1st place: Bravo Matthew Cassel for your film The Journey!✨ Many thanks to Corinne Momal-Vanian (Director Division of Conference of Management) and Laura thompson (IOM DDG) And special thanks to Amanda Martinez Nero and crew for putting the festival together in 90+ countries! IOM – UN Migration / Global Migration Film Festival #WhatIDoOnWeekends #JuryDuty #InternationalMigrantsDay – Kantarama
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Tapis Rouge has a National Theatrical release in France starting May 10 !!! Many many thanks to our distributor Wayna Pitch. – Kantarama Tapis Rouge @ IMDb
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March is a busy month! Here I am, teaching a Masterclass on Low Budget Filmmaking at Alliance Française in Tunis! Tunisia has a long tradition of cinema, let’s help the young filmmakers perpetuate and renew this tradition! – Kantarama
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Tapis Rouge (and I) on the road in Tunisia !!! El Kef opening a Film Festival near the border with Algeria > special screenings in 3 prisons near Tunis : some of the most powerful interactions I ever experienced > Monastir > Hammamet > Menzel Bourguiba > Tunis opening the Festival du Film Francophone… Besslama Tounis
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Lost Angel Less wins an AWARD OF MERIT at IndieFEST Los Angeles and at the same time BEST ANIMATED SHORT at Berlin Independent Film Festival (BIFF) in February 2017. On Valentine’s day… #electrofunk, #love and #red #balloons! MANY THANKS TO MY CAST AND CREW With Marie Ruchat and Classik Luvanga Music by Classik Luvanga Production Colors records Editor/Animator/Magician Valentin Waeber Director of Photography Gabriel Lobos Props Design Stefan Lauper Background Design Johan Markwalder (Walder) Additional VFX Johnc Bigmap-tv Thank you all for your support, I love you! – Kantarama
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Athens International Film Festival. Tapis Rouge opens the Minority Report program. A top quality festival with an edgy programmation, passionate festival goers, the capital of European culture (sorry Paris!), edgy galleries, cheap cocktails, mild evenings, wild nights… Efharisto poli Αθήνα! Thank you Athens for showing me so much love ❤️ – Kantarama Tapis Rouge @ IMDb Upper pix: Andreas Eggler / Lower pix: Maria Maroulakou
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