What is Video Fair?

An International African Stories Video Fair has launched its first video screening program entitled IN VERY VISIBLE COLOURS. The Video Fair, the first of its kind to utilize and pay tribute to vast stocks of educational videos, travels to rural and high-density suburbs throughout Zimbabwe in order to reach communities that lack access to film and video, and who so deperately need educational resources. The Video Fair has formed a strategic partnership with Media for Development Trust and Group Africa.

Cinema is the most dominant image maker of the 20th Century and the world's most powerful form of mass communication. In Africa alone, about 300 million people go to the cinema every year. -Flamingo Magazine

...yet many rural Zimbabweans are still denied access to this powerful medium.

Members of the Board

Debra Mugobogobo is the Coordinator for UNESCO's Zimbabwe Film & Video Training Project;
Doreen Sibanda is the Coordinator for Artists Against Poverty and the proprietor of Mutopo The Totem Gallery;
Barbara Victoria is currently an associate partner with International Capital Corporation;
Gellie Makurumure is an administrator/book-keeper studing CIS part D & is also employed as Coordinator for the Video Fair;
Spike Gaura is Public Relations Officer with The Zimbabwe International Book Fair;
Charity Maruta, founder, is serving as Director of the Video Fair. Charity is also a freelance filmmaker; she was production coordinater for Yellow Card.

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