A poster announcing the African Women Covid-19 Short Film competition. PHOTO | COURTESY
The Ladima Foundation in partnership with the DW Akademie
announced a short film competition for African women content creators
and filmmakers on life during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The
competition aims to encourage African women to share their real-life
stories from different African countries as they face various degrees of
lockdowns that limit their movements, opportunities and, often, basic
freedoms. The organisers argue that the pandemic has affected women more
in terms of increasing cases of domestic violence and their burden of
care.
This film competition invites
the women filmmakers to share experiences that are honest, personal, and
specifically related to Covid-19. Entries across genres are welcome,
from animation and fiction, to documentary or interview style – the
content just needs to be two minutes or shorter.
The
themes should be on women with special needs/coping with special needs
during the lockdown/caring for persons with special needs during a
global pandemic; impact on family/domestic life; economic/impact on work
life; domestic violence/abuse; hope in the time of Covid-19; are women
paying a higher price?; how does the crisis highlight and affect the
role of women?; the crisis offering an opportunity to rethink the social
order; and, solidarity and empowerment among women.
Entry is free and registration can be done on the Ladima Foundation’s website. The initiative dubbed African Women in the Time of Covid-19: A Short Film Competition runs from June 1-21.
Ten
winning films will be selected by a jury and then streamed on the
Ladima website along with other partner websites. Winners will also
receive 500 euro each and access to a year’s worth of webinars on the
USA’s Women Make Movies platform valued at about $500.
The Ladima Foundation supports, trains and mentors women in film, TV and content creation.
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