Amakula promises to sponsor Zuka

By Joan Akello BAMC II, :: 08-08-2011

Film club memebers

Amakula  Cultural Foundation has promised to sponsor the Zuka Students’ Film Festival.
  This was revealed last week during a workshop organised

by the Zuka Film  Club dubbed, “Film Appreciation”.  The Amakula  team  that was led by Nathan Kiwere and Denis Onen  told Zuka members that they would sponsor the festival.    
   The workshop was attended by over 30  members from various courses.  Onen told the members  that one needed not to go to  film school to become a film maker.   He encouraged students to take up film making saying it would be one way of employing themselves.
    Three films were screened  and used as points of  discussion. They were: Mahla, Blood stones  and For Today. They were used to  explain  some techniques of effective film making. Mahla, is a film set in Mozambiqan nuclear family. Blood Stones,  on the other hand, was set in Nigeria  depicting child labour of which the interest of the crowd was  nonetheless the effective use of child actors to portray the message. The most appreciated  film  was ‘For Today’. Zuka members liked the creativity that was used in the film. It  employed  suspense  and a child  actor to convey a message  of hunger and negligence of street children by society.
   Commenting on the film,Onen said that the best technique used was suspense created and the Ethiopian music that was used in the background.  
    His counterpart Kiwere, on the other hand,  promised to assist the young club grow. He  said they wanted  to establish a working relationship  with the  club as a way of raising young film makers.
 He said they were going to extend  support to the club in form of equipment ,   technical knowledge, movies for  screening and  also films for Movie Nights.   
 “This relationship will benefit the club by exposing it to  possible film  sponsors, national and international  publicity  and opportunities  for   students’ films   to participate  in film festivals in the country, East Africa and internationally,”he said.   
  The   Zuka students Film Festival is slated to take place from 23rd-25th September at Nsambya Sharing Hall.The Zuka Foundation which conducts the festival founded by Eddie Oketcho, gives opportunities for film club to showcase students’ films at the two- day festival.
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