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Open Air Cinema Brings Outdoor Movies to Africa For World Cup 2010

By on June 9, 2010 in Humanitarian, Kampala 2 Cape Town, Outdoor Movie Events

Once again, the Open Air Foundation of Open Air Cinema is teaming up with nonprofits to help change the world through the medium of outdoor cinema. Stuart Farmer, the founder and owner of Open Air Cinema, has headed to to hand-deliver an OAC outdoor movie system that will be used with the nonprofit programs of Kampala 2 Cape Town. K2CT is providing community outdoor screenings using Open Air Cinema equipment of the 2010 World Cup in Gisenyi , Kampala , Oyugis Kenya and Mongu . The live World Cup screenings provide an excellent opportunity for K2CT to gather local communities in and provide them with educational experiences, all of which will further the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals of ending poverty and hunger, providing universal education to all, the promotion of gender equality and child and maternal health, the combat of HIV/AIDS, environmental sustainability, and the development of a global partnership for development.

From the K2CT blog: “K2CT is a technology savvy group, we searched long and hard for a technical solution to screening matches. With Open Air Cinema and their amazing inflatable screen we have selected a partner to help bring the World Cup to rural communities in Africa. Our attraction to Open Air Cinema was that they are already realizing the potential for more than just World Cup screenings to educate and inspire many.”

The Open Air Foundation is thrilled to be a part of such a historic global event, and we’ll be keeping you posted on the screenings and activities as the World Cup 2010 commences. Only two more days left until World Cup 2010!

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Italian Magazine Features Open Air Cinema's Outdoor Movies in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda

By on March 18, 2009 in Humanitarian, Open Air Cinema, Open Air Cinema Foundation, Outdoor Movie Events, Rwanda Cinema Center

Outdoor Movies in Kenya, Tanzania, and UgandaIn a recent issue of the Italian magazine, D la Repubblica delle Donne, Open Air Cinema’s inflatable movie screens were featured in a special African spread. Open Air Cinema’s past work bringing outdoor movies to refugee camps in , and caught the magazine’s eye. As mentioned in the article, Open Air Cinema’s inflatable screens will be used in ’s Outdoor Film Festival, “Hillywood”. In rural regions of , where a whole village shares one old TV, movies and Public Service media are rare. Open Air Cinema traveled to to bring film entertainment and also educational media to these rural areas. You can read the blog post about Open Air Cinema’s outdoor movies in here. The following is the article from the Italian magazine, D la Repubblica delle Donne.

Outdoor Movies in an Italian MagazineDopo i pop up store, i pop up cinema. La compagnia americana Open Air Cinema fornisce tutto l’occorrente nella formula dei “CineBox”: uno schermo gonfiabile da dodici metri, generatori, proiettori digitali, lettori dvd, altoparlanti e custodie per il trasporto. “E dal momento che possono essere installati ovunque, perché non cominciare dalle zone più remote dell’Africa, con l’aiuto delle Ong, per unire l’intrattenimento all’informazione su temi come l’Aids o i diritti delle donne”, ha pensato il presidente Stuart Farmer. “Già usati nei campi profughi di Kenya, Tanzania e Uganda, gli schermi gonfiabili saranno installati a giugno a “Hillywood”, il festival di cinema itinerante del Ruanda (openaircinema.us).

Photo of Outdoor Movies in Africa from Insert

Photo of Outdoor Movies in Africa from Insert

After the pop up store, the movies pop up. The American company Open Air Cinema provides everything you need in the form of the  “CineBox”: an inflatable screen twelve meters in dimension, generators, digital projectors, DVD players, speakers and boxes for transport. “And since they can be installed anywhere, we can take them to the most remote areas of Africa, with the help of NGOs; joining entertainment with information on topics such as AIDS or the rights of women,” he thought President Stuart Farmer. “Already in use in the refugee camps of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, inflatable screens will be installed in June at “Hillywood”, the film festival touring Rwanda (openaircinema.us).

Source: “Life e Tendenze” by Stefania Medetti -D la Repubblica della Donne. Read full (Italian) article at: http://dweb.repubblica.it/dweb/2009/02/21/lifeetendenze/lifeetendenze/058lab63458.html.

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Katine, Uganda: Outdoor Movies Shown in a Make-Shift Open Air Cinema in Katine, Uganda

By on March 6, 2009 in Humanitarian, Outdoor Movie Events
Photo Credit: The Guardian

Photo Credit: Dan Chung -The Guardian

Dusk was already falling as we – a team of Guardian and Amref staff – pulled up to the Apalamio trading centre in the Ojom parish of . It was still busy with people buying vegetables, bartering for goods and mending bikes. With us we had four films, a large bundle of wires and leads, a laptop, projector and screen and blind hope everything would come together on the night. Our idea was simple. Bring the Guardian’s films about back home: outdoor movies in rural .

Our vision of creating an open-air cinema in the middle of a Ugandan village finally became reality last week when we screened to an audience of hundreds four of the films shot by Sara Nason for GuardianFilms about aspects of life in Katine.

Things weren’t perfect. The only speakers we had were ones that could fit in a suitcase, which left parts of the crowd straining to hear what was being said. The power supply was erratic. A crisis over a fused plug was averted by an enterprising local who simply screwed live wires into our plug-board with two small sticks, and when we finally got a picture, it was at times obscured by the slow procession of a colossal bug inching slowly across the screen.

But the roars of laughter from the crowd, the calls of approval of women during Nason’s short documentary about the perils of childbirth in Katine and the well-wishes of locals after the films had played ensured that this outdoor movie screening will be just the first of many.

Two nights later we showed the same films to an even larger crowd on the site of an old IDP camp in Tiriri, this time with hired speakers and the screen rigged up to one of our vehicles.

Over the coming months Amref plans to hold more open-air screenings of Katine films, and, hopefully, some of those shot by villagers, following training conducted last week, at different locations throughout the sub-county.

Source: “Four films and blind hope” by Annie Kelly -The Guardian. Read full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine/2009/mar/06/cinema-screening-report.

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