Holiday Greetings TO Hot Sun Foundation

Hey, congratulations to Hot Sun Foundation on a great year! Picking up the pieces after the election violence, you've clearly surged forward. Big big strides.Achieved of course only through a tremendous amount of hard work and determination.
UNICEF has now placed the Kids of Kibera photography project on their website. Here's the link to the work:
http://www.unicef.org/devpro/index.html

Congratulation again for making so many lives that little bit better!
Heather and Chris Elam, members of Hot Sun Foundation Advisory Board

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Holiday Greetings to ALL from HOT SUN FOUNDATION

Happy Holidays and a Peaceful New Year to all from the Hot Sun Family!
Look for more exciting events in Kibera in the coming year, including the FEATURE FILM PROJECT!

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FANTASTIC FILM NIGHT in KIBERA!

The set up of the equipment started at around 4.30 pm. 12 December 2008. Our visitors from Mathare, Slum TV and Africalia arrived at around 5.30pm. They were amazed at the turn out and the amount of effort and energy it took to have open air screenings every month. Sven, Fred and Charlotte from Africalia noted that Hot Sun’s on open air film night was indeed a great tool in social transformation and education. Amazed by the turn out, they commented on the large number of talented artists who came to perform at the screenings.

The videos that were screened included:-
The Hot Sun Foundation Welcome video
What a day
Chronic in Kibera and Sex to Survive
Obama celebrations in Kibera
Kubadilishana Amani (Peace Exchange) which was the film of the day

The event ended at around 8.15pm. We have noted the number of audience members steadily increasing since we started. We are happy to note that this time we had a crowd of more than two thousand people in attendance.
-- Santa. A. Mukabanah, Communications Officer, Hot Sun Foundation

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KIBERA KID at ViVe TV in Caracas Venezuela

Pamela Collett had a workshop about the work of Hot Sun Foundation with the production team of ViVe TV, which is a cultural television network founded by the Venezuelan national government in 2003. ViVe features the work of independent producers and community programs, such as its program of short fiction produced with Venezuelan communities. ViVe includes a film school which includes international students as well as Venezuelans. ViVe is preparing a DVD of their work to share with Hot Sun Foundation.

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Hot Sun Foundation at Catia TV in Caracas, Venezuela

Pamela Collett showed Kibera Kid to a production team at Catia TV a community television station located in western Caracas. The Catia TV group included youth from Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil as well as Venezuela who are studying community television. Catia TV sends their greetings and best wishes to Hot Sun Foundation in Kibera!

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Hot Sun Films in Venezuela for AFRICALA

AFRICALA, the African Film Festival for Latin America is underway in Venezuela, South America,from 12-18 December 2008. Hot Sun Films award-winning short story about two brothers in Somalia CHARCOAL TRAFFIC is featured. Pamela Collett, representing Hot Sun Foundation is participating in many special events and forums, to share information about the work of Hot Sun Foundation in Kibera. WATCH this space for more info and photos!
Photo from left to right, Flavio Florencio, organizer of AFRICALA, Pamela Collett, Hot Sun Foundation and Fatoumata Coulibaly, actress from Mali, starring in the film MOOLAADE by Ousmane Sembene, known as the father of African film.

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THIS THURSDAY...YOU ARE INVITED

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Greetings from Paris, France International Environmental Film Festival!

All the Festival team was proud and happy to welcome you with your wonderful short film, CHARCOAL TRAFFIC. Both the audience and the jury were happy to discover your very strong film and this important problem in Somalia. We received many compliments about your original and very interesting film.

Warmest regards, Dominique, Myriam, Inès and all the festival team
Festival International du Film d’Environnement Paris – France

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KUBADILISHANA AMANI - African Cinemas Screening

DATE: 11.12.2009
TIME: 6.00
VENUE: Goethe-Institut
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Slum TV is based in Mathare, Hot Sun Foundation in Kibera. Kibera and Mathere are the two largest slums in East Africa. They are separated by geography, and at times by tribal affiliation. However they share much too; the same resourcefulness in the face of adversity, a vibrant informal economy and both are sites for the production of a new emerging Kenyan culture and identity. Nevertheless, there is little exchange and a certain mutual suspicion between them.
After the disputed election results of December 2007, Kenya tumbled into the worst political violence it has experienced since Independence. Within Nairobi, the worst aff ected areas were the slums.
Slum TV together with Hot Sun Foundation made a documentary which explores the legacy of this violence from a personal perspective. The production process was documented by the Mwelu Foundation in digital still images. The 20 minutes long documentary fi lm will be shown together with an exhibition of the documenting photos. Other screenings will take place in Kibera (12.12.2008) and in Mathare (19.12.2008). This project has been kindly supported by Africalia.

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CHARCOAL TRAFFIC in AFRICALA in VENEZUELA!

CHARCOAL TRAFFIC, which won BEST SHORT FILM at the Kenya International Film Festival 2008, is traveling around the world! With subtitles in Spanish and Portuguese, CHARCOAL TRAFFIC was recently shown in AFRICALA, African Film Festival in Brazil. CHARCOAL TRAFFIC will be shown twice in Caracas, Venezuela, on December 13 and 15. Pamela Collett will give a talk about the work of Hot Sun Foundation on 15 December at the National Art Gallery in Caracas!

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OBAMA CELEBRATIONS IN KIBERA

OBAMA WINS, KIBERA CELEBRATES.

Watch this video produced as a training video by the youth of hot sun foundation.

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