Lola Kenya Screen, Nairobi, Kenya

Lola Kenya Screen was founded in October 2005 under the ArtMatters Info literary project of ComMatters Kenya as an annual international film festival, production workshop and audiovisual media platform to empower children and youth with life skills.

Lola Kenya Screen—whose name is derived from the widely spoken African Bantu languages meaning ‘watch’ or ‘see’ film in Kenya—seeks to cultivate sustainable audiences for cinema, inculcating in people the habit of producing high quality films, watching and marketing them as widely as possible. It equips children and young people with the skills to understand, appreciate, and create quality audio-visual media productions in particular and the arts in general.

Lola Kenya Screen not only showcases the best possible international films for children, youth and family but also empowers children and youth through her hands-on production workshops to make at least five high quality, low-budget, moving images per year.

Please click here to read how rewarding filmmaking was to one young filmmaker in Nairobi.