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Alternativa Film Festival Expands to Africa, Opens 2027 Submissions with $120,000 in Prizes

Alternativa Film Festival, the Global South film festival founded and supported by inDrive, has opened submissions for its fourth edition, which will be held in Africa for the first time. Announced at ...
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Police Block Screening of Kenyan Documentary ‘The People Shall’ at Kilifi Creek Festival (EXCLUSIVE)

Police have blocked the screening of Kenyan documentary The People Shall at the 2026 Kilifi Creek Festival, running from 23-31 October. Speaking exclusively to Sinema Focus, co-director Mark Maina ...
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MultiChoice Unveils New DStv Packages and Prices in Kenya

MultiChoice Group, a Canal+ Company, has announced new DStv packages and prices in Kenya that will take effect from 5 November, terming it the company’s “the most significant DStv package refresh in ...
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NBO Film Festival 2026: ‘Ben’Imana’, ‘The Woman Who Poked the Leopard’ Win Top Prizes, Over KSh 1.7 Million Awarded to Projects in Development

Rwandan feature Ben’Imana won the Fiction Feature Jury Prize as the NBO Film Festival wrapped up the seventh edition on Sunday 25 October. Meanwhile, Ugandan documentary The Woman Who Poked the ...
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Six Years of the Great Lakes Creative Producers Lab: Juliana Kabua and Samuel Tebandeke on Rethinking East African Filmmaking

Six years ago, two East African filmmakers, Kenyan Juliana Kabua and Ugandan Samuel Tebandeke, sat down across a table from a mentor at the Ouaga Film Lab in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The mentor was ...