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Rwanda Cinema Center
RWANDA CINEMA CENTRE
Gaculiro Estate 2020 -Auracaria Nord Street, No 119 -P.O. Box 4065 -Tel: + 250 58 10 44 -Cell:+ 250 0830-6480-KIGALI/ RWANDA
Gaculiro Estate 2020 -Auracaria Nord Street, No 119 -P.O. Box 4065 -Tel: + 250 58 10 44 -Cell:+ 250 0830-6480-KIGALI/ RWANDA
Hollywood guru to visit
Jan 23, 2007 at 06:19 AM
A Hollywood Director, Ed Greenberg is expected to visit Rwanda early February. “I know he is from University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) but I have not yet met him directly. I will meet him when I go to Los Angels next month,” Eric Kabera,
the Director of the Rwanda Cinema Centre, told The New Times. Greenberg is an improvisational theatre and television comedy
director, voice over actor and teacher.
The US Embassy Public Affairs Officer, Brian George also confirmed Greenberg’s visit. “I have not yet known the exact date he is
coming but I will let you know when I know; we know he is coming.”
Greenberg is coming to share his experience with Rwandans and is going to be part of the training programme pledged by UCLA as
partnership with Rwanda to introduce entertainment studies and comedy making.
UCLA is one of the biggest universities in the USA with one of the major film department in the world.
Kabera said Greenberg will also attend the annual film festival which will start early March.
“We are very happy that Ed Greenberg is considering coming and sharing his talents with our students at the Rwanda Cinema
Centre during this second edition of the Film training programme,” he said.
Kabera and other Rwandans are travelling to Los Angels to attend a workshop in regard to filming, where they will meet Greenberg
and will talk about his visit. Their travel is sponsored by the US Embassy in Kigali.
Kabera promotes film culture and has created a film industry in Rwanda, the Rwanda Cinema Centre.
“I decided to set up the Rwanda Cinema Centre with the purpose of training young men and women on techniques of making
films, he said.
He is also the producer of the first feature film on the Rwandan genocide, titled 100 Days.
“The film paved the way for other feature projects to start the move of making films in Rwanda and we are soon embarking on a
partnership with the UCLA extension programme in Rwanda,” he added.
About twenty young men and women will attend the training on techniques of making comedies and Sitcoms.
“We have a wide range of partners and collaborators in this regard, the main one are the American producers of the award winning
TV programme called ‘Every Body Loves Raymond and have supported us with books and all their videos to serve us as a
reference model,” Kabera said in exclusive interview.
“We just want our people to laugh after so much time of serious experience and upheaval, we know the Rwandan people have a
sense of humour and we want to bring that out, these sitcoms will be put on Rwanda TV with whom we hope to have a solid
collaboration in 2007,” Kabera said of the move to establish a comedy film industry in the country.
He added: “We are happy that local stories are being told by our people and in ten to twenty years to come, it will not be the
American, French or English writers or filmmakers to tell the story of our nation but our own people will take charge of their story
and how it should be told.”
BY MAGNUS K MAZIMPAKA
Last Updated Jan 23, 2007 at 06:33 AM
Jan 23, 2007 at 06:19 AM
A Hollywood Director, Ed Greenberg is expected to visit Rwanda early February. “I know he is from University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) but I have not yet met him directly. I will meet him when I go to Los Angels next month,” Eric Kabera,
the Director of the Rwanda Cinema Centre, told The New Times. Greenberg is an improvisational theatre and television comedy
director, voice over actor and teacher.
The US Embassy Public Affairs Officer, Brian George also confirmed Greenberg’s visit. “I have not yet known the exact date he is
coming but I will let you know when I know; we know he is coming.”
Greenberg is coming to share his experience with Rwandans and is going to be part of the training programme pledged by UCLA as
partnership with Rwanda to introduce entertainment studies and comedy making.
UCLA is one of the biggest universities in the USA with one of the major film department in the world.
Kabera said Greenberg will also attend the annual film festival which will start early March.
“We are very happy that Ed Greenberg is considering coming and sharing his talents with our students at the Rwanda Cinema
Centre during this second edition of the Film training programme,” he said.
Kabera and other Rwandans are travelling to Los Angels to attend a workshop in regard to filming, where they will meet Greenberg
and will talk about his visit. Their travel is sponsored by the US Embassy in Kigali.
Kabera promotes film culture and has created a film industry in Rwanda, the Rwanda Cinema Centre.
“I decided to set up the Rwanda Cinema Centre with the purpose of training young men and women on techniques of making
films, he said.
He is also the producer of the first feature film on the Rwandan genocide, titled 100 Days.
“The film paved the way for other feature projects to start the move of making films in Rwanda and we are soon embarking on a
partnership with the UCLA extension programme in Rwanda,” he added.
About twenty young men and women will attend the training on techniques of making comedies and Sitcoms.
“We have a wide range of partners and collaborators in this regard, the main one are the American producers of the award winning
TV programme called ‘Every Body Loves Raymond and have supported us with books and all their videos to serve us as a
reference model,” Kabera said in exclusive interview.
“We just want our people to laugh after so much time of serious experience and upheaval, we know the Rwandan people have a
sense of humour and we want to bring that out, these sitcoms will be put on Rwanda TV with whom we hope to have a solid
collaboration in 2007,” Kabera said of the move to establish a comedy film industry in the country.
He added: “We are happy that local stories are being told by our people and in ten to twenty years to come, it will not be the
American, French or English writers or filmmakers to tell the story of our nation but our own people will take charge of their story
and how it should be told.”
BY MAGNUS K MAZIMPAKA
Last Updated Jan 23, 2007 at 06:33 AM