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DREAMING WHILIST BLACK SCREENS AT GOETHE ZENTRUM KAMPALA

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  "When you don't shoot your movie, you stop all opportunities that have come out of it" .                                                               Ajani Salmoni Adjani in the centre together with Aloyo Annet and Nkambo Robert Friday night was a night to remember. Aloyo Annet and Nkambo Robert, the director of studies and director  Mediavision Academy respectively made it to  Goethe-Zentrum Kampala in Kamwokya to watch Dreaming Whilst Black by Adjani Salmoni.  Adjani is a BAFTA award winning British film director and actor,  originally from Jamaica. The basement was filled to capacity as Ugandan filmmakers gathered to get a glimpse of this TV series. The screening opened with remarks from Dr. Anna Adima the director of Goethe-Institut Kampala.   Annet Aloyo together with Nkambo Robert enjoying the series Adjani commended the British Council, the British Commission and other partners for supporting the international artist exchange program that made the evening possib

UGANDA FILMMAKERS MEET AJANI SALMONI IN KAMPALA

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Our director, Nkambo Robert  had the privilege to meet Adjani Salmoni a BAFTA award winning British Producer, writer, director and actor who hails from Jamaica.  This opportunity occurred on Thursday evening at the residence of Her Excellence the British High Commissioner Kate Airey OBE in Kampala.  The event  was attended by Ugandan filmmakers and stakeholders in the film industry. Also present were representatives from the European Union and Goethe-Institut.  In her speech H.E. Kate Airey hailed filmmakers for their connection with reality as Artificial Intelligence takes over humanity.     Adjani Salmoni posses for a photo together with Nkambo Robert and other filmmakers "I had dreamed of meeting Adjani but it wasn't coming through that first, today my dream came true. Thanks to the British Council that has made this possible through its initiative of promoting the creative sector in Uganda",says Nkambo Robert.  During his interaction with Adjani, he learnt that Adjani

COME WITH US TO THE LAND OF BUFFALOS

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  Mediavision Academy crew and the Cross Cultural Foundation Uganda team spent the   bigger part of Friday, 10th October filming inside Kidepo Valley National Park.   Kidepo is Uganda’s most isolated national park, but the few who make the long journey north through the wild frontier region of Karamoja would agree that it is also the most magnificent, for Kidepo ranks among Africa’s finest wildernesses. It   lies in the rugged, semi arid valleys between Uganda’s borders with south Sudan in the north west and only 5km from the eastern border of Kenya, some 700km from Kampala. Gazetted as a national park in 1962, it has a profusion of big game and hosts over 77 mammal species photo of buffalos at the Kidepo Valley National Park Our aim was to tell a story of the benefits of the Kidepo Valley National Park to the communities living around it. It was such a great opportunity to visit Kidepo but its by far having the most spectacular landscape of all the park. It  has the biggest Buffalo po