{"id":40710,"date":"2020-01-15T13:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-movie-awards-now-international\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:03:31","slug":"rwanda-movie-awards-now-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-movie-awards-now-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Movie Awards now international"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He said, \u201cThis time movies from the East African region will be invited, not as observers but to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, participating countries will include Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>To apply, one must show proof of ownership of a movie he is submitting for the awards. The movie must have been released in 2018 or 2019, for Rwandan movies. For international films, they must have been released in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s activities will see a Rwandan movie being shown in different towns around the country,  take different actors outside Kigali to meet their fans, an exhibition of Rwandan movies, and will take Rwandan movie producers on benchmark visits abroad. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda Movie Awards was launched in 2012. Submissions for this year\u2019s awards start this Wednesday, January 15, 2020, and the awards will be given on March 7, 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34478 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uko_ibyiciro_bihagaze_muri_rwanda_movie_awards_2020-3f988.jpg\" alt=\"This year, participating countries will include Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34479 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rwanda_movie_awards_yagejejwe_ku_rwego_mpuzamahanga-24dae.jpg\" alt=\"To apply, one must show proof of ownership of a movie he is submitting for the awards.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Movie Awards [RMA] will, beginning this year become an international event as it now encompasses the whole East African region film industry, Jackson Mucyo the president of Ishusho Arts that organizes the movie awards has told IGIHE. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[236],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-alain-jules-hirwa"],"bylines":[{"id":236,"name":"Alain Jules Hirwa","slug":"alain-jules-hirwa","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":81}],"contributors":[{"id":236,"name":"Alain Jules Hirwa","slug":"alain-jules-hirwa","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":81}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40710"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40710"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}