Rwanda’s only prestigious film festival will be honored at this year’s African film festival in Hollywood. The country’s young film festival begun almost seven years ago to promote Rwanda’s cinema and film industry.
The event will be held in Hollywood at the prestigious Pan African Film festivals on February 9th where Rwanda and other countries from all over the world will also be honored for their work.
This event is expected to be attended by internationally rich and famous stars many of Africa’s great talents. Mr. Eric Kabera has been nominated for the African Channel Vision Award.
IGIHE.com exclusively talked to Eric Kabera the president of the Rwanda Film Festival began his career at a young age where he found his for cinematography.
Kabera is also a screen writer and director, his work for films like ‘100 days’ depicts the story of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and Africa United a sweet family movie depicting many of the challenges Africa faces including; AIDS, prostitution and child abuse.
He told IGIHE.com about what this recognition means–“This award doesn’t only go to me but rather its dedicated to Rwanda, for the whole country has helped in supporting the film industry in Rwanda, this award will give Rwanda the recognition it deserves”.
The Rwandan film festival has so far screened over 100 movies around the globe in countries like Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Israel, United States and Belgium among others. The Journey has been long from having no film industry to being honored at one of Africa’s biggest film awards in over just a few years.
This year’s Rwandan film festival which will begin in July 2012 has two parts; the ‘hillywood’ which will consist of movies locally made and the second is the ‘Kigali festival’ which will consist of showing movies from around the world.
Kabera told IGIHE.com that participants have already started submitting their work. By the end of July this year a few winners will be selected whose films, short stories and screenplays will be shown around Rwanda throughout the festival.
“This is a new and exciting era for Rwanda” says Kabera, “the film industry will be able to bring more to its contribution to the development and growth of Rwanda’s private sector”.
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