The Best is Forbidden
The Best Is Forbidden
By Esther Nyauncho
On the fourth day, at Lola Kenya Screen, Toti a fourteen year old Maasai girl, tells of her struggles since she was young. As she explains you can see same anger in her eyes.
When she was eleven years old, her mother told her that she would be married off. Her family badly needed the bride price cattle to survive. It was only five days to go after which she would be married off, she decided to run away with the help of her mother. This made her small sister to be married off instead of her. She is now happy with herself, because she is going to school and will be able to complete her studies and pursue he career.
Many of the other girls want to follow her, some of them ask her for directions when in a similar situation. However some women fight with her because they she encourages their children to run away and she is destroying their culture, which has been their from the post.
After she finishes school she wishes to help those who are behind her after school. She says she doesn’t want to follow the culture because she always 9felt ashamed when her mum saw her with a man, so if it were to follow their culture she would be ashamed every time her mother saw her with her husband asked whether she thinks this culture will steps, she denies stating that even after she ran away her siblings were sold off. Her twin sister was married off to an old man whose ten years older than their father, she did not run away with her sister ran away from her husband and away from the community but later returned because she feared being cursed by the elders. Toto does not believe in curses, she is brave, determined and is ready to help others. Later on in the story, she goes back to her community, All of them welcome her apart from a few women who dislike her and talk about her negatively. Her mother says she’s very happy to see her because they even wanted to visit her. Her father says he’s happy too and he advise her to work hard in school because she is the one who can help them in the future. She is given the Maasai blessings among them. She will be able to finish her studies and her health will be okay.
According to this, there are many issues in society that should be discussed and organizations should be formed that will help the girl child by fighting for their rights and abolition of unnecessary practices. The girls should also go to school and finish their education. Parents should not be blind folded by how much worth the bride price is instead they should focus on what is best for their children.
on the first day, at the Lola Kenya Screen Eid Abdel Latif, an ward – winning filmmaker, talks of what and how he got into the film industry.
He starts by telling us of his Trend, Mohammed, who loved films a lot and one day her was watching a cartoon, Mickey Mouse he saw one of the characters flying and he decided to try the same. He went to a building 9th floor and jumped down. Afterwards he died and that is when Abdel knew he had a calling to the film industry.
He now believes she has a calling and he believes the film industry has some magic in it. He has tried his works in different films and his work his wonderful, having been born in Egypt and attending and Princess balloon, its all about Dido and Princess balloon, imagines it could be a head and “dresses” it with the aid of his friends, the seagull, the crane and the sparrow. Thereby the balloon becomes a human being and tries to control the others arrogantly. It grows bigger and bigger till it finally blasts with the astonishment of Dakdok and his friends.
His fear is mainly on fictious film because he focuses on children for his films.
In the Kenya Screen Festival, he works with the film production workshop, which mainly comprises of chicken. His main aim is to have as many animated creatures, which is made of electric wives, cello tape and covered with material or plastacine which is molded into different shapes. They also face major obstacles like, not insting their stories in time and also bordomancy.
Eid says the children should watch move films since this will enable them to get move creative ideas and will also expound their knowledge.
Being born in Egypt does not make him to like only movies produced there, he ‘at times tries to watch other films from other countries, he likes fictious movies films because he powers of the characters are not limited they can do things which are past the Human capability. He also calls on others to join the film industry because one gets more and also the expand their creativity levels.
This tells us that we should all have our definition of art which should be able to guide us in all aspects of film.
On the fourth day, of the Lola Kenya Screen Festival at Alliance Francise, Patrick a film producer who also helps in airing the films talks of the obstacles facing this festival. First he says there is poor attendance due to lack of publicity. He says even though they spend a lot of money creating and supplying flyers it is not enough unless someone has heard about the festival from others.
He continues to explain why he thinks the festival is important, he says out of the small ideas one gets; one can easily start producing their own films, which will help in the growth of the film industry. According to him he thinks the festival is great and many children should attend because he believes children are creative when it comes to this field and they get to expand their knowledge. According to him film is good because it enables one to investigate issues in society.
On the same point Duco Tellegen, an award winning Film Maker who has made a film called Toti says the programme is aimed at indicating in protesting Film makers the desire to make documentary films for children and youth.
Among his films is one which talks about, a eleven year old Indian girl discovering and struggling with the fact that she is infected with the HIV Virus. It’s all about the challenges she faces including rejection and some of the things she can do. However even though she is this way same people still love her the way she is.
Clearly she faces rejection from others because of her status. People should learn to live with one another in love.
Make statements, a film producer in collaboration with Duko come up with a film about a fourteen year old Maasai girl, who when she was eleven, her cattle to survive, she decided to run away because she did not want to follow that custom and she wanted to finish her education studies.
After she finishes school she aims at helping other girls when in a similar situation and also the ones who helped her like her mother, who helped her run away. She also wasn’t to go to schools and create awareness about this to girls in schools because she also about the same in schools. She wants to be a teacher, because in this profession you get to pass about of knowledge to others and you get to interest with others.
This shows us that we have to teach the whole society about the goodness and badness of culture, because they say it takes a whole community to raise a boy to a man.
About the author
Esther Nyauncho is a memberofthe Lola Kenya Screen 2008 Festival Press
By Esther Nyauncho
On the fourth day, at Lola Kenya Screen, Toti a fourteen year old Maasai girl, tells of her struggles since she was young. As she explains you can see same anger in her eyes.
When she was eleven years old, her mother told her that she would be married off. Her family badly needed the bride price cattle to survive. It was only five days to go after which she would be married off, she decided to run away with the help of her mother. This made her small sister to be married off instead of her. She is now happy with herself, because she is going to school and will be able to complete her studies and pursue he career.
Many of the other girls want to follow her, some of them ask her for directions when in a similar situation. However some women fight with her because they she encourages their children to run away and she is destroying their culture, which has been their from the post.
After she finishes school she wishes to help those who are behind her after school. She says she doesn’t want to follow the culture because she always 9felt ashamed when her mum saw her with a man, so if it were to follow their culture she would be ashamed every time her mother saw her with her husband asked whether she thinks this culture will steps, she denies stating that even after she ran away her siblings were sold off. Her twin sister was married off to an old man whose ten years older than their father, she did not run away with her sister ran away from her husband and away from the community but later returned because she feared being cursed by the elders. Toto does not believe in curses, she is brave, determined and is ready to help others. Later on in the story, she goes back to her community, All of them welcome her apart from a few women who dislike her and talk about her negatively. Her mother says she’s very happy to see her because they even wanted to visit her. Her father says he’s happy too and he advise her to work hard in school because she is the one who can help them in the future. She is given the Maasai blessings among them. She will be able to finish her studies and her health will be okay.
According to this, there are many issues in society that should be discussed and organizations should be formed that will help the girl child by fighting for their rights and abolition of unnecessary practices. The girls should also go to school and finish their education. Parents should not be blind folded by how much worth the bride price is instead they should focus on what is best for their children.
on the first day, at the Lola Kenya Screen Eid Abdel Latif, an ward – winning filmmaker, talks of what and how he got into the film industry.
He starts by telling us of his Trend, Mohammed, who loved films a lot and one day her was watching a cartoon, Mickey Mouse he saw one of the characters flying and he decided to try the same. He went to a building 9th floor and jumped down. Afterwards he died and that is when Abdel knew he had a calling to the film industry.
He now believes she has a calling and he believes the film industry has some magic in it. He has tried his works in different films and his work his wonderful, having been born in Egypt and attending and Princess balloon, its all about Dido and Princess balloon, imagines it could be a head and “dresses” it with the aid of his friends, the seagull, the crane and the sparrow. Thereby the balloon becomes a human being and tries to control the others arrogantly. It grows bigger and bigger till it finally blasts with the astonishment of Dakdok and his friends.
His fear is mainly on fictious film because he focuses on children for his films.
In the Kenya Screen Festival, he works with the film production workshop, which mainly comprises of chicken. His main aim is to have as many animated creatures, which is made of electric wives, cello tape and covered with material or plastacine which is molded into different shapes. They also face major obstacles like, not insting their stories in time and also bordomancy.
Eid says the children should watch move films since this will enable them to get move creative ideas and will also expound their knowledge.
Being born in Egypt does not make him to like only movies produced there, he ‘at times tries to watch other films from other countries, he likes fictious movies films because he powers of the characters are not limited they can do things which are past the Human capability. He also calls on others to join the film industry because one gets more and also the expand their creativity levels.
This tells us that we should all have our definition of art which should be able to guide us in all aspects of film.
On the fourth day, of the Lola Kenya Screen Festival at Alliance Francise, Patrick a film producer who also helps in airing the films talks of the obstacles facing this festival. First he says there is poor attendance due to lack of publicity. He says even though they spend a lot of money creating and supplying flyers it is not enough unless someone has heard about the festival from others.
He continues to explain why he thinks the festival is important, he says out of the small ideas one gets; one can easily start producing their own films, which will help in the growth of the film industry. According to him he thinks the festival is great and many children should attend because he believes children are creative when it comes to this field and they get to expand their knowledge. According to him film is good because it enables one to investigate issues in society.
On the same point Duco Tellegen, an award winning Film Maker who has made a film called Toti says the programme is aimed at indicating in protesting Film makers the desire to make documentary films for children and youth.
Among his films is one which talks about, a eleven year old Indian girl discovering and struggling with the fact that she is infected with the HIV Virus. It’s all about the challenges she faces including rejection and some of the things she can do. However even though she is this way same people still love her the way she is.
Clearly she faces rejection from others because of her status. People should learn to live with one another in love.
Make statements, a film producer in collaboration with Duko come up with a film about a fourteen year old Maasai girl, who when she was eleven, her cattle to survive, she decided to run away because she did not want to follow that custom and she wanted to finish her education studies.
After she finishes school she aims at helping other girls when in a similar situation and also the ones who helped her like her mother, who helped her run away. She also wasn’t to go to schools and create awareness about this to girls in schools because she also about the same in schools. She wants to be a teacher, because in this profession you get to pass about of knowledge to others and you get to interest with others.
This shows us that we have to teach the whole society about the goodness and badness of culture, because they say it takes a whole community to raise a boy to a man.
About the author
Esther Nyauncho is a memberofthe Lola Kenya Screen 2008 Festival Press
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