By Iminza Keboge
Published June 17, 2018
A channel in eastern Africa that broadcasts videos made by, with and for children and youth invites subscribers.
The Lola Kenya Children’s Screen channel carries short movies of all genres–animation, documentary, experimental and fiction–and subjects made by young people during the skills-development programmes of a Nairobi-based motion pictures initiative known as Lola Kenya Screen.
Inviting people with interest in children’s movie content to subscribe to the channel, Ogova Ondego, Managing Trustee and Creative Director of Lola Kenya Screen movie platform for children and youth in eastern Africa, says doing so will enable guarantee ensure subscribers are kept abreast of developments in children’s media, culture and other relevant global trends.
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“Please do view these very short works by children and youth posted on this channel to kindly provide your CRITICAL and HONEST feedback on each work to assist the children and youth who create–and the adults who produce–them to come up with BETTER work,” Ondego says. “Don’t forget to Subscribe, Share, Comment and Like the videos and invite your contacts to the channel.”
Besides the YouTube channel, Lola Kenya Screen is also revamping and building its other networking and career-development platforms on Facebook, WhatsApp, Google+ and Twitter.
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Ondego explains that Lola Kenya Screen, to respond to a pressing need, was created in 2005 to “mirror the concept known as ‘industry’ or manufacturing ‘factory’–independent but inter-related parts working together as a unit for common good–to train practitioners in the conception, creation, promotion and distribution/consumption of relevant and culture-appropriate content as they help in shaping the agenda for media (particularly motion pictures) arts and lifestyle for society through children and youth.”
Among the subjects addressed in the movies from the perspective of the children and youth who made them include virtues such as vigilance, industry, kindness, unity, respect, conservation and education.
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