Read More: Watch: CNN Profiles the Zanzibar International Film Festival The Zanzibar International Film Festival (Ziff), the largest arts and culture festival in East Africa, has released its date and theme for next year. The theme will be "This Journey of Ours: Ndiyo hii Safari Yetu," representing the significance of the journey no matter the destination. On the theme, Ziff Director Martin Mhando said, "Any journey is symbolic of life, with its trials and tribulations, its highs and lows and with its destinations that change with time. On the road of life the journey transforms us through its bends and long stretches making speed a companion of ours like the shadow." The theme will be inspiration for next year's submissions and programming, from exhibitions and workshops to film screenings. The 19th edition of the arts and culture festival will take place from July 9-16, 2016. Read More: Zanzibar International Film Festival Call For.
- 7/27/2015
- by Meredith Mattlin
- Indiewire
Cool CNN profile of the Zanzibar International Film Festival, and its executive director, Martin Mhando. CNN's African Voices traveled to Zanzibar, for a profile of the relatively young film festival over the summer, during its 2014 edition - a festival that's considered the largest multi-disciplinary art and cultural festival in Africa, dedicated to the exhibition of films, music, panorama and more. Each year Ziff exhibits more than 150 films made in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, USA and Asia. The festival also offers a number of Workshops, Forums and Exhibitions featuring world known artists, scholars, researchers and authors. In addition,...
- 12/8/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
At 'the Cinema Paradiso of Zanzibar' old films are watched under open sky – director Nick Broomfield hopes to put the roof back on
Every Friday they gather there, seven or eight elderly men in a ramshackle auditorium of cobwebs and broken chairs. Sitting under an open sky (the roof fell in long ago) they watch the flickering images of old films projected on to the wall.
"It's the Cinema Paradiso of Zanzibar," said Martin Mhando, director of the annual Zanzibar International Film Festival (Ziff), which takes place on the Tanzanian island next month. "Cinema Paradiso was heavenly compared to what's there."
This is the Majestic, one of Africa's first cinemas, an art deco gem from the 1920s that lost its lustre. Mhando is leading a campaign to restore the ruin to its former glory – vital, he says, because where Tanzania and its islands once had 53 cinemas, now there are only two.
Every Friday they gather there, seven or eight elderly men in a ramshackle auditorium of cobwebs and broken chairs. Sitting under an open sky (the roof fell in long ago) they watch the flickering images of old films projected on to the wall.
"It's the Cinema Paradiso of Zanzibar," said Martin Mhando, director of the annual Zanzibar International Film Festival (Ziff), which takes place on the Tanzanian island next month. "Cinema Paradiso was heavenly compared to what's there."
This is the Majestic, one of Africa's first cinemas, an art deco gem from the 1920s that lost its lustre. Mhando is leading a campaign to restore the ruin to its former glory – vital, he says, because where Tanzania and its islands once had 53 cinemas, now there are only two.
- 6/3/2011
- by David Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
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