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 Something To Look
Forward To!
The Embassies of the member states of the European Union, their
respective cultural institutions and the Delegation of the European
Union are organisinge, as in previous years, the European Film
Festival.
Being an expression of cultural exchange between Zambia and the
European Union, this years’ festival will be held from Friday May 14
up to Thursday May 20. Traditionally, the festival will be opened
with the contribution of the Presidency, Ireland and closed with the
contribution of the Delegation of the EU.
As it is already the fourth European Film Festival in succession, it
is time for some changes.
Firstly, its location: as Lusaka now has a fully-fledged cinema at
its disposal, all film shows can be seen in the Ster-Kinekor
complex. And at a reduced entrance fee of K 5,000 per show. Also
contrary to other years, tickets will be only available at the
booking-office of Ster-Kinekor. Secondly, in order to make the
Festival even more attractive, short theatrical performances will
take at intervals during the Festival, alternating between Augustin
Lungu and Benne Banda in conjunction with UNZA students. Finally,
coverage of the Festival will be given on ZNBC (Kwacha Good Morning)
and UNZA Radio as well as publicity programmes on
Radio Phoenix, Radio Four, Radio Choice and Q-FM.
Other things remain the same - the children’s programme over the
weekend and interesting films such as Denmark’s first contribution
to the Festival, Lars von Trier’s “Dogville” and England’s “Love
Actually”.
The traditional brochure (with the exact programme and details on
all films shown) will be available shortly at the Ster-Kinekor
complex and the participating Embassies and Honorary Consulates
(Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands,
Sweden), British Council & Alliance Francaise and the Delegation of
the European Union.
A new, and
very important, element of the Festival will be a four day training
on film production. This will be sponsored by the EU-funded Cultural
Sector Support Programme (EU - CSSP), and will include training in
pitching, film production, editing and continuity. Target
participants (to be handpicked by the EU- CSSP) are both practicing
Zambian film producers and budding film producers. While the
European film festival is meant to showcase European films and
African films produced with EU assistance, it is important to also
empower Zambians with skills to enable them to produce top-quality
films.
We hope you will join us at the European Film Festival 2004!
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May 2004