Reflecting on last week’s adventures at Mashariki African Film Festival! It was a pleasure teaching again a two-day introductory workshop titled “Girls In Cinema” hosted by Goethe-Institut Kigali. & being Member of the Jury for African Short Films category along with my dear friends Joël Karekezi and Nirere Shanel. So many interesting exchanges, so many new connections. Great 4th Edition. So grateful ❤ thank you Universe!
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March 2018, we came full circle, back to where it all started 5 years ago in March 2013! TAPIS ROUGE Thank you for believing in us. Thank you for the chills. Now, ready for the next adventure. – Kantarama Tapis Rouge @ IMDb
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THANK YOU 2018 !!! So grateful !!! Still in February and already : – Traveled to 5 cities (Paris, Rotterdam, Kigali, Berlin, Geneva)… – Watched A LOT of films, classics and new at International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR and Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival !!! (*including classics like: Lumumba Retour au Congo by Raoul Peck, Sankofa by Haile Gerima, La Noire de… by Ousmane Sembène, Harvest 3000 years by Haile Gerima) (*but also: SUPA MODO, Eldorado, MAKI’LA – Film, Das Kongo Tribunal, Birds Are Singing in Kigali, Une Saison En France, Kinshasa Makambo, Azougue Nazaré, It Must Make Peace, I Am Not A witch, Djon Africa, Cook Off, Les Deux Visages D’Une Femme Bamileke, Viaje A Los Pueblos Fumigados, Our Madness, High Fantasy, Vivre Riche) (*and : Respeto, Laissez bronzer les cadavres, The Real Estate, 7 Days In Entebbe, MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A., Yocho (Foreboding), Khook) – Got to celebrate with my friend for his award-winning short film: IMFURA-short Film by Karemangingo Ishimwe !!! 1st Rwandan film at Berlinale YAY !!! (*and other inspiring shorts : Tuko Macho by Jim Chuchu, Mugabo by Amelia Um, La Mazda Jaune Et Sa Sainteté by Sandra Heremans, Hairat by Jessica Beshir, Mahogany Too by Akosua Adoma Owusu) – Participated in Haïlé Gerima‘s EYE-OPENING Workshop about Storytelling Structure / Reclaiming our Narrative & Decolonizing our Minds !!! – […]
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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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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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Speaking today about African Cinema and the Nouvelle Vague at Kino Xenix in Zurich… but wait a minute… Africa is so big! Jean-Pierre Bekolo and I agree, it would be crazy and a lie to generalize and reduce it to a few approximations. Turns out that I can only speak about what I know: Cinema in East Africa, because THE CONTINENT is so diverse and complex. Thank you for the invitation. We definitely need more discussions like that. – Kantarama
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Proud to be back for the Second Edition of Mashariki African Film Festival as Marraine of the Festival. The setting looks like a dream (Grand Pension Plaza in Kigali). We had a record number of people attending the Opening Ceremony and screened TIMBUKTU by Abderrahmane Sissako under the stars (an Academy Award Nominee, a Cannes Film Festival Selection, and a winner of 7 Césars). Need I say more? – Kantarama
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