October 16, 2018 www.mygov.go.ke NEWSFOCUS | 3 ICT ministry set to Establish Film Fund Kitty will help the youth in development, production, and marketing of Kenyan film content BY DAVID MUKARA PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS, MINISTRY OF ICT T he Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology is committed to helping the young people prosper through their talents and is formulating a film policy that will see the establishment of a Film Fund, Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has revealed. Once established, the fund will help the youth in development, production, and marketing of Kenyan film content. The CS noted that creative industries are a source of untapped potential of economic growth across Africa which could also be used to tame high unemployment rates for the youth who are a great majority in the continent and in particular Kenya. He was speaking in Dagoretti during the launch of MultiChoice Talent Academy, which seeks to develop and train young, emerging, passionate film talents through experiential filmmaking. The CS also welcomed the inaugural class of the academy which consists of 20 students selected from various countries in the East African region. The Ministry also donated laptops to the students. He urged the Kenyan youth to tell their own African stories through film, but at the same time avoid eroding their cultural values. To further affirm the ministry’s commitment towards creating jobs for the young people, he cited two projects - Sinema Mashinani and Studio Mashinani - which are being implemented by Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) and Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KCB) respectively. Sinema Mashinani seeks to promote local film productions in vernacular languages to celebrate Kenya’s cultural and linguistic diversity while Studio Mashinani aims at enhancing availability of recording studios and enhancement of self-employment opportunities for artistes across the country. “We have been talking to different partners and there is a chance that we are going to have 47 theatres across Kenya. With the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation we have Studio Mashinani and now we have Sinema Mashinani with the Kenya Film Classification Board and we want to partner with MultiChoice, so that even the Kenya Film School works in collaboration with your Talent Academy,” he said. Other projects implemented by the We have been talking to different partners and there is a chance that we are going to have 47 theatres across Kenya. With the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation we have Studio Mashinani and now we have Sinema Mashinani with the Kenya Film Classification Board and we want to partner with MultiChoice, so that even the Kenya Film School works in collaboration with your Talent Academy -Joe Mucheru 60 Length, in minutes, of ‘Flesh business,’ a documentary film that explores underage prostitution at the Kenyan Coast. It won the best documentary film category Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru tests a student’s laptop donated by the ministry after he officially opened MultiChoice Talent Factory Academy in Nairobi. Looking on is area Member of Parliament John Kiarie. Ministry that target the youth include Presidential Digital Talent Programme, Ajira Digital and Digital Skills for Life. Principal Secretary in the State Department of Broadcasting Mrs Fatuma Hirsi Mohammed urged the inaugural students of the Talent Academy to utilise their talent in film making by combining it with the skills that they will gain in the Academy to produce a diverse of content that can be used by the local broadcasters. Director General of the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) thanked MultiChoice for training local talents in the production of local content. He hoped that the Talent Academy will raise the threshold of competition in the local content production. “As CAK, we have prescribed local content quota in our Programming Code which we require the media houses to achieve and this is basically intended to give opportunity to the local film industry not only to showcase, but also to sell their products. 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