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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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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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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“Pourquoi aller chercher les grandes productions Hollywoodiennes alors qu’il suffit simplement d’une bande de potes, de l’imagination et de l’originalité ?” Coups de Coeur du Vendeur. Tapis Rouge est toujours disponible à la Fnac !! – Kantarama Tapis Rouge @ IMDb
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June 2015, teaching a DIRECTING masterclass (in Portuguese!) in Sao Paulo at Instituto Criar de Cinema y Novas Mídias. The students were really keen to practice different improvisation techniques we used when filming Tapis Rouge. The whole day was a lot of fun. And passion is universal. – Kantarama
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I am so proud to tell you that Tapis Rouge has a Theatrical release in Geneva at Cinéma Les Scala and Lausanne at Cinéma Bellevaux! Wow. A friend once told me #neverletgo. It is true. – Kantarama Tapis Rouge @ IMDb
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