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AFRICA African music library goes digital[Khanyi Ndabeni] An ambitious Eastern Cape project to digitise indigenous African music dating back to the 1930s is helping to introduce rare traditional tunes to a new generation. 12 Jun 2009 12:48 AFRICA Piracy looms over Copyright SummitWASHINGTON: Movie directors, composers, authors, legal experts, policy-makers and others are meeting here this week to discuss the "threats and opportunities" the Internet poses to copyright in the digital age. 8 Jun 2009 12:52 AFRICA US doccie team partners with Mozambicans
AFRICA IRIN releases new doccie on CAR humanitarian crisisNAIROBI: The Central African Republic (CAR) has been in the throes of a humanitarian crisis for more than a decade. Army mutinies, coups and attempted coups, rebellions, gangs that kidnap for ransom and, more recently, elements of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army have made life for civilians, especially in the north, extremely challenging, unpredictable, and very dangerous. 29 May 2009 10:23 AFRICA Africa invited to participate in One Click One Pic Project
AFRICA SA film wins recognition in Cannes
AFRICA The creative economy: which way for Africa's future[Titus Kaloki] Many have always wondered what is creativity and how can it be measured. How can one tell creativity from the norm and how can one tell what has been creatively done or not. A respected panel of experts who worked on the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report, provided their definition of the term. 6 May 2009 10:50 AFRICA Tierney Fellowship 2009 call for applications
AFRICA Twenty Ten applications open for African journalists
AFRICA SAE calls for African Animation Scholarship applicants
AFRICA Howard Music produces soundtrack for Nigerian TVC
AFRICA UBA continues to finance African film industryLAGOS: United Bank for Africa, a financial services institution, has restated its support to the African film industry through financial assistance. In partnership with UBA, African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) is extending its support to areas such as the development of an African Film Academy, large scale training, commercial distribution, marketing, production and general welfare of African film. 9 Apr 2009 09:51 AFRICA African doccie screened at international science festival
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US, ARKANSAS: Four college students are preparing to partner with Mozambicans to film a documentary on African development. The students' stated goal for the documentary, tentatively titled “The Kujilana Project,” is to teach villagers video-camera savvy and help them gather footage of local stories pre-dating Mozambique's Civil War and the Portuguese Colonial War. 
Project "One Click One Pic's" goal is to catch the earth as it is on Saturday, 24 October 2009, from vantage points worldwide. The project aims to commemorate the date when the first photo of the earth was taken in 1946. The project, organised by HEAPFO, has called on Africa to participate. 
"Izulu Lami" (My Secret Sky), a feature film directed by South Africa's Madoda Ncayiyana, received the ‘Dikalo Best Feature Film' prize at the International Pan African Film Festival, held in Cannes in April 2009. 
Applications are now being accepted for the 2009 Tierney Fellowship at the Market Photo Workshop. The fellowship aims to provide the successful applicant with the financial support necessary to research and produce a body of photographic work, in consultation with a mentor, over the period of a year. 
Twenty Ten is a project for professional print journalists, photojournalists and radio journalists of African nationality and currently living in Africa. It aims to encourage media professionals to creatively produce and distribute articles, images, broadcasts and multimedia productions related to African football. 
The SAE Institute is calling for African candidates for the African Animation Scholarship programme. SAE Cape Town is offering 10 scholarships for sub-Saharan African students and five South African students. 
South Africa's Ministry of Illusion recently completed a 45 second production of a TV commercial for Lagos-based real estate company, Legacy Realties. Howard Music were appointed to create the soundtrack to illustrate the visuals of the TVC. 
"Cosmic Africa", a feature length documentary film that explores and sheds new light on traditional African astronomy, will be screened on 10 April 2009 at the Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh, Scotland. There will be an introduction and Q&A session led by Professor Donald Kurtz, Professor of Astrophysics from the University of Central Lancashire. 
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