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This former lecturer is helping young African filmmakers produce better stories

This former lecturer is helping young African filmmakers produce better stories

WHEN Thomas Bundi realised that Africa could be better represented on the big screen, it took him a while to work out how to help. Then came an opportunity - and he jumped at it. "We represent ourselves the way we want to be seen, and the film is a very good cultural diplomacy tool," Bundi, a film producer and lecturer who works online, in partnership with Jenge Kulture, a Kenyan NGO. In 2017, Bundi was working as a lecturer at the Africa Digital Media Institute and the African Film and Television Talent Training Institute when he noticed that a…
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Thrill of the silver screen returns to England as lockdown eases

Thrill of the silver screen returns to England as lockdown eases

HANNA RANTALA LONDONER Sam Poch was anticipating the thrill of the big screen lighting up as he waited on Monday to enter a cinema on Leicester Square - a once routine experience that has not been possible for months because of COVID-19 restrictions. The 31-year-old content producer was among the first arriving to watch a film the old-fashioned way as cinemas in England reopened their doors as part of the latest stage in the government's phased lockdown relaxation plan. "I missed it a lot. It's just the whole experience of going out, sitting down in (front of) the big screen…
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