Self-taught filmmaker Michael Jenkins [pictured] becomes inaugural winner of new talent award.
Bristol’s Afrika Eye festival of African film has announced the winner of its inaugural new talent award.
Self-taught filmmaker Michael Jenkins won with a proposal for a documentary about the use of blackened faces in English folk customs, including Padstow’s Boxing Day parade.
Jenkins receives a £400 script research and development bursary from the festival, as well as mentoring and production support from the competition’s judges: RCA’s Karen Alexander, B3 Media’s Martin Boothe, Afrika Eye’s co-founder Ingrid Sinclair and Laura Marshall, MD of Icon Films, Bristol.
This year’s Afrika Eye festival also included sold-out screenings of Nairobi Half Life and Something Necessary, alongside the world premiere of Simon Bright’s latest documentary The King and The People.
Bristol’s Afrika Eye festival of African film has announced the winner of its inaugural new talent award.
Self-taught filmmaker Michael Jenkins won with a proposal for a documentary about the use of blackened faces in English folk customs, including Padstow’s Boxing Day parade.
Jenkins receives a £400 script research and development bursary from the festival, as well as mentoring and production support from the competition’s judges: RCA’s Karen Alexander, B3 Media’s Martin Boothe, Afrika Eye’s co-founder Ingrid Sinclair and Laura Marshall, MD of Icon Films, Bristol.
This year’s Afrika Eye festival also included sold-out screenings of Nairobi Half Life and Something Necessary, alongside the world premiere of Simon Bright’s latest documentary The King and The People.
- 11/13/2013
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
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