The 19 th edition of the International Youth Media Summit (IYMS) will be held in Zanzibar in July. The International Youth Media Summit is a collaborative film production and training event organized ...

Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi supported organizers of the annual Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) and said the event would expose and develop the island’s tourism and heritage. ZIFF ...

Just days after the colourful Kalasha Film and TV awards, local film directors were off to Zanzibar International Film Festival (Ziff) held between June 27 and July 4. Even as the Kalasha awards ...

Tanzanian officials have given actor Idris Elba permission to proceed with plans to expand Africa’s film industry by creating a designated “Zollywood” area in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archipelago ...

Every year, ZIFF screens over 60 films made in Africa, Middle East, Europe, Latin America, USA and Asia. ___4399064___https:_____static.pulse.com.gh___webservice ...

A Ugandan film that tells the story of the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda Janani Luwum, who stood up against President Idi Amin’s dictatorial regime and paid dearly with his life 47 years ago, won ...

Hollywood star Idris Elba has been allocated land in Zanzibar to set up a film studio in the Indian Ocean archipelago, a local minister said.

Enigmatic artifacts from French cinema’s secret history, the Zanzibar Films emerged from a loose cadre of artists shortly before and following May 1968. Though powered by 20th-century revolutionary ...

Neshama Entertainment is working with Zanzibar Films to adapt Andrea Carter’s book series The Inishowen Mysteries into a scripted miniseries. The miniseries will be created as a Canada-Ireland ...