bosi mpya wa M-Net Africa Channel Biola AkedanbiLeo nimesikitishwa sana nilipopata habari kwamba mchongo huo hapo chini ambao umekuwa ukitangazwa tokea mwezi Novemba mwaka jana hadi sasa ni mmbongo mmoja tu ndiye kajitokeza kushiriki kwenye warsha hiyo muhimu ya waandishi wa filamu itayofanyika huko Nairobi mwezi Machi mwaka huu.
Hivi wabongo tuna nini lakini, wakwe ama watani wa jadi wakitupiga bao kwa kujazana wao kwenye warsha hiyo tunakosha sana vinywa na kujifanya wajuaji. tukipewa shavu tunadengua. Mungu atupe nini toba yaillahii. Haya mafilamu yetu yatapataje ubora endapo kama tunakacha semina kama hizi??
Kina Gervas, Mtitu, Mpoto, Irene Sanga na wengineo mko wapi????
-michuzi
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M-NET ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR 2009 SCREENWRITERS WORKSHOP
With its brand-new local talk show The Patricia Show on air, its hot new drama The Agency about to hit DStv screens across East Africa and its second Kenyan drama Changes heading into production, African entertainment pioneers M-Net are already focusing on 2009. Today the company announced plans for a special 6-day Screen-Writers Workshop to be held in Nairobi in March.
With its brand-new local talk show The Patricia Show on air, its hot new drama The Agency about to hit DStv screens across East Africa and its second Kenyan drama Changes heading into production, African entertainment pioneers M-Net are already focusing on 2009. Today the company announced plans for a special 6-day Screen-Writers Workshop to be held in Nairobi in March.
Now calling for interested writers, producers and industry professionals from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to apply for entrance into the fully sponsored event, M-Net is aiming to promote the continued growth of the region’s burgeoning television industry.
By investing in local skills development and by further partnering with the Kenyan Film Commission, M-Net has expanded its ongoing efforts to nurture and foster local talent.
According to recently appointed M-Net Africa Channel Director Biola Adekanbi, the decision to host a Screen-Writers Workshop is a direct result of the enthusiasm and commitment M-Net has found in its partnerships with the local East African film and television community.
"In the last two years M-Net has deeply intensified its efforts across this region and this outreach has been warmly welcomed with positive support across the board. Increasingly the need to tell local stories, promote local stars and holistically involve local crew is becoming paramount to ensuring that good quality, relevant productions are created to meet the demand from millions of DStv viewers for engaging and entertaining content."
She goes on to say, "M-Net is confident that this Screen-Writing Workshop is another step in the right direction, another brick in building on our strong foundations for marketable and relevant programming."
To apply for entrance into the workshop, script-writers from any of the three participating countries must submit a copy of their original script-work completed within the last two years, which is not currently and has never been in production for any commercial television company. The script submitted should be a minimum of 20 pages and a maximum of 30 pages.
In addition, script-writers will also be requested to submit a one-page synopsis, character bible, an updated resume or biography, and a proposal of not more than 1500 words explaining why they would like to attend the workshop.
Thereafter an evaluating committee will shortlist the entrants who will be invited to a one-on-one meeting with M-Net and other stakeholders at which each will be required to write a 10-minute narrative in the format of drama, short story and/or sitcom. Finally, 25 writers will be invited to attend the workshop.
M-Net Program Manager for East Africa Wangeci Murage acknowledges that gaining entrance to the workshop requires entrants to complete a rigorous selection process.
"We’re investing heavily in this initiative and want to ensure we’re able to provide 25 truly determined writers with an innovative and unique opportunity to hone their skills and enhance their talents. For this reason, we want to select candidates who’ll be able to fully maximize on their learnings from this event.
Ultimately, we’d also like to be able identify key partnerships for the future from this process as well as promote greater regional commercial television success."
Comprising lectures and writing exercises, the M-Net Screen-Writers Workshop follows an initiative by M-Net last year in which a contingent of Kenyan filmmakers were sponsored on an all-expenses paid trip to Lagos to share ideas and knowledge with Nigeria’s prolific Nollywood film making community.
This time round, selected participants will workshop on the grammar of film, story development, narrative point of view plus character analysis and scene structure. In addition, it will allow industry professionals from the three countries to network and construct multi-national relationships that they are able to use to their benefit.
Interested persons who wish to apply for the M-Net Screen-Writers Workshop can deliver their proposals to Wangeci Murage (M-Net Kenya, Rahimtulla Tower, 18th Floor, Nairobi);
Ronald Shelukindo (MultiChoice Tanzania, Dar es Salaam)
or
Leonah Mbonimpa (MultiChoice Uganda, Kampala).
The deadline for entries is Friday January 16, 2009.
Balozi,
ReplyDeleteHii ni short story ya Mtunzi Mark Twain inayoweza kutuongezea kujiamini popote pale duniani: The best thing a man is to be born lucky.
I was at a dinner in London given in honor of one of the most celebrated English military men of his time. I do not want to tell you his real name and titles. I will just call him Lieutenant General Lord Arthur Scoresby.
I can not describe my excitement when I saw this great and famous man. There he sat. The man himself, in person, all covered with medals. I could not take my eyes off him. He seemed to show the true mark of greatness. His fame had no effect on him.
The hundreds of eyes watching him, the worship of so many people did not seem to make any difference to him.
Next to me sat a clergyman, who was an old friend of mine. He was not always a clergyman. During the first half of his life, he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich. There was a strange look in his eye as he leaned toward me and whispered, "Privately – he is a complete fool." He meant, of course, the hero of our dinner.
This came as a shock to me. I looked hard at my friend. I could not have been more surprised if he had said the same thing about Napoleon, or Socrates, or Solomon.
But I was sure of two things about the clergyman. He always spoke the truth. And his judgement of men was good. Therefore, I wanted to find out more about our hero as soon as I could.
Some days later I got a chance to talk with the clergyman and he told me more. These are his exact words:
"About forty years ago, I was an instructor in the military academy at Woolwich, when young Scoresby was given his first examination. I felt extremely sorry for him. Everybody answered the questions well, intelligently, while he – why, dear me – he did not know anything, so to speak. He was a nice, pleasant young man. It was painful to see him stand there and give answers that were miracles of stupidity.
"I knew of course that when examined again he would fail and be thrown out. So, I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him, as much as I could.
"I took him aside and found he knew a little about Julius Caesar's history. But he did not know anything else. So I went to work and tested him and worked him like a slave. I made him work, over and over again, on a few questions about Caesar which I knew he would be asked.
"If you will believe me, he came through very well on the day of the examination. He got high praise, too, while others who knew a thousand times more than he were sharply criticized. By some strange, lucky accident, he was asked no questions but those I made him study. Such an accident does not happen more than once in a hundred years.
"Well, all through his studies, I stood by him, with the feeling a mother has for a disabled child. And he always saved himself, by some miracle.
"I thought that what is the end would destroy him would be the mathematics examination. I decided to make his end as painless as possible. So, I pushed facts into his stupid head for hours. Finally, I let him go to the examination to experience what I was sure would be his dismissal from school. Well, sir, try to imagine the result. I was shocked out of my mind. He took first prize! And he got the highest praise.
"I felt guilty day and night – what I was doing was not right. But I only wanted to make his dismissal a little less painful for him. I never dreamed it would lead to such strange, laughable results.
"I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.
"Then, the Crimean War broke out. I felt that sad for him that there had to be a war. Peace would have given this donkey a chance to escape from ever being found out as being so stupid. Nervously, I waited for the worst to happen. It did. He was appointed an officer. A captain, of all things! Who could have dreamed that they would place such a responsibility on such weak shoulders as his.
"I said to myself that I was responsible to the country for this. I must go with him and protect the nation against him as far as I could. So, I joined up with him. And away we went to the field.
"And there – oh, dear, it was terrible. Mistakes, fearful mistakes – why, he never did anything that was right – nothing but mistakes. But, you see, nobody knew the secret of how stupid he really was. Everybody misunderstood his actions. They saw his stupid mistakes as works of great intelligence. They did, honestly! His smallest mistakes made a man in his right mind cry – and shout and scream, too – to himself, of course. And what kept me in a continual fear was the fact that every mistake he made increased his glory and fame.
"I kept saying to myself that when at last they find out about him, it will be like the sun falling out of the sky.
"He continued to climb up, over the dead bodies of his superiors. Then, in the hottest moment of one battle down went our colonel. My heart jumped into my mouth, for Scoresby was the next in line to take his place. Now, we are in for it, I said.
"The battle grew hotter. The English and their allies were steadily retreating all over the field. Our regiment occupied a position that was extremely important. One mistake now would bring total disaster. And what did Scoresby do this time? He just mistook his left hand for his right hand…that was all. An order came for him to fall back and support our right. Instead, he moved forward and went over the hill to the left.
We were over the hill before this insane movement could be discovered and stopped. And what did we find? A large and unsuspecting Russian army waiting! And what happened? Were we all killed? That is exactly what would have happened in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. But no – those surprised Russians thought that no one regiment by itself would come around there at such a time.
"It must be the whole British army, they thought. They turned tail. Away they went over the hill and down into the field in wild disorder, and we after them. In no time, there was the greatest turn-around you ever saw. The allies turned defeat into a sweeping and shining victory.
"The allied commander looked on, his head spinning with wonder, surprise and joy. He sent right off for Scoresby, and put his arms around him and hugged him on the field in front of all the armies.
"Scoresby became famous that day as a great military leader, honored throughout the world. That honor will never disappear while history books last.
"He is just as nice and pleasant as ever, but he still does not know enough to come in, out of the rain. He is the stupidest man in the universe.
"Until now, nobody knew it but Scoresby and myself. He has been followed, day by day, year by year, by a strange luck. He has been a shining soldier in all our wars for years. He has filled his whole military life with mistakes. Every one of them brought him another honorary title.
"Look at his chest, flooded with British and foreign medals. Well, sir, every one of them is the record of some great stupidity or other. They are proof that the best thing that can happen to a man is to be born lucky. I say again, as I did at the dinner, Scoresby's a complete fool."
Mdau
Rocky
London.
sababu hatutaki movie zenu tumerizika na za nyumbani kwani nyumbani ni nyumbani.
ReplyDeleteSababu wabongo wanapenda warsha za Europe, Australia na marekani. Sasa huko watashop wapi? Na je wakiamua wakizamia huko watafaidi nini?
ReplyDeleteThink about that
Michuzi kwani we hujui?
ReplyDeleteLUGHA baba. Watu wetu wanakacha lugha hiyo kwani wanajua itakuwa kwa kiingereza nasi watu wetu wengi hawawezi kujieleza kifasaha kwa lugha ya Kiingereza.
Ingekuwa inaendeshwa kwa lugha ya Kishwahili ungeona hapo wangalivyojaa!
after watching a fair share of our local movies, this is a golden opportunity for the so called producers wa bongo,
ReplyDeletei dont think language should matter because most of our local films are in kiswahili, can you please please drag the shigongoz, mtituz and whoever, not only to this scholarship but to bring it to their attention that please copy paste time is over, a bit of creativity and some originality is really needed, am suprised when local dailies report on some actors/actresses kuwa alivaa uhalisia haswa wa tukio lile, but when you do watch it, the uhalisia is maybe they had tears, or nyodo and thts about it, if you watch movies hata za Kenya tu jamani, mume na mke ndani ya nyumba hawaambiani "nimerudi mume wangu " "asante mke wangu" na wakianza kuongea " sasa mke wangu ..." hii sio uhalisia, uhalisia ukianza unamwita na kuongea kama tunavyoongea majumbani kwetu freely without formal adress hiyo hujavaa uhalisia, bado unaigiza !! unamwita kama mke wangu kusisitiza you are acting, so y'all please be real
Michuzi baba hao wote uliowataja kuacha Gervas, lugha na taaluma ya filamu ni mgogoro! Mrisho, Irene, Mtitu wanaogopa kukutana na wataalamu maana wanajua wataumbuka. Ni wabishi na wana tabia ya kutotaka kujifunza/kukashifu maana tayari ni ma celeb! Perez una akili sana wewe!
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