Education Kenya Project #3632

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films

by Hot Sun Foundation

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films

Project Report | Mar 16, 2015
From Nothingness to Possibilities

By Ignatius | Volunteer and Supporter

Ignatius, aka The Kibera Kid

Ignatius, 21 years old, aka The Kibera Kid

Editors note: Ignatius was chosen to be The Kibera Kid in the award winning short film,released in 2007. Ignatius lives in Kibera, one of the largest slums in East Africa, located in Nairobi, Kenya

Being in the short film The Kibera Kid changed my life to focus from just thinking about my problems in Kibera and how Kibera was bad to thinking about how I could become a great person in society.

This was because despite the fact that I was just a small boy from Kibera, I had featured in a film that received universal recognition. I started living in a world of believing in new possibilities for myself and my community.

Currently I am a student at the University of Nairobi finishing a degree in diplomacy and international studies. I am majoring in international relations and public international law. My big plans for the future are that after the degree course I want to source for opportunities to further my studies, to do a master sin public international law, foreign policy analysis or international security.

Hot Sun Foundation has proved to be an avenue where less privileged persons who would not have known how their future would look like can have the chance to start modelling the futures that they want. It has helped open my scope of seeing things around me.

Open up possibilities for more youth in East Africa.

Remember Hot Sun Foundation on Wed 18 March BONUS DAY.

Your donation will be matched 30%. Put it on your calendar.

Donate early in the day as funds are limited.

http://www.goto.gg/3632

Thank you!

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Mar 18, 2015
Witness to Social Transformation

By Ignatius | Volunteer and Supporter

Ignatius pointing to Kibera, where he lives

Ignatius, 21 years old, aka The Kibera Kid

Editor's note: Ignatius was chosen to be The Kibera Kid in the award winning short film, released in 2007. Ignatius lives in Kibera, one of the largest slums in East Africa, located in Nairobi, Kenya

I am now living in the world of believing all things are possibilities just because Hot Sun took me in my nothingness and put me in their film (The Kibera Kid)… an act that transformed my life wholly.

Today I can confidently say that the dreams I have today and the steps I have made Hot Sun has had a hand in them. I am grateful to the entire Hot Sun Foundation. I am what I am because of them.

People around the world should unite and help support Hot Sun Foundation in its aspirations to ensure social transformation through media and art. Many people today wouldn’t have become what they are it not for the impact Hot Sun has had in their lives.

I have witnessed people who used to just loiter in the slums of Kibera being transformed to great camera men and women and editors of TV stations in Kenya.

For me this is why primarily Hot Sun Foundation ought to be supported: to help give a future to those people who maybe have lost hope about the future and yet they have great talents that haven’t been tapped.

A better Kenya will and can be achieved with the existence of organisations such as Hot Sun Foundation.

I am witness to the great job they have done to many people in my locality.

REMINDER:

Wednesday 18 March is BONUS DAY at Global Giving, beginning at 9 am Eastern Daylight Time in the USA.

Your donation will be matched 30%.

Donate early in the day as funds are limited.

http://www.goto.gg/3632

Thank you!

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Dec 30, 2014
By the numbers: Summary of 2014

By Pamela Collett | Communications and Trustee

Josephine, a trainee at Hot Sun Foundation

Greetings from Hot Sun Foundation!

Below is a very different project update. Our reports usually profile one of our trainees or interns. We encourage people to tell their own stories about what filmmaking training at Hot Sun Foundation has meant to them.

Numbers don't tell stories, people do. But numbers might be of interest.

So below is a summary of 2014 by the numbers.

Remember us in your year-end donations!

Our major grant ends this year.

Keeping our doors open to providing filmmaking to urban slum youth in East Africa depends on your support!

Thanks for all you do!

Donate at http://www.goto.gg/3632

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Hot Sun Foundation: 2014 Annual Report

SUMMARY by the numbers as of 28 December 2014

Number youth trained

Foundation in Filmmaking: 18

Advanced Film Production Project

Interviewed 60

Semi finalists 16 (received 2 months hands-on training)

Finalists: crew: 10 (received 2 months hands-on training and crew for 1

month filming on location in Nanyuki and other locations in Kenya)

Number working on Advanced Film Production Project

Advanced Film Production Crew: 10

Actors (excluding extras): 12

Production heads, assistants: 8

Logistics: 2

Number of Social Networking interns: 4

Number of graduates employed in Kenya media industry: 65

Number of short films produced : 12

Documentary co-produced with Influence Films: Destruction for Survival

Number of film festivals entered : 8

Number of film festival awards: 1 plus 1 finalist

Number of videos on vimeo : 25 https://vimeo.com/hotsunfoundation

Number of testimonials by former graduates on vimeo: 2 https://vimeo.com/user35354184

Number of workshops: 4

1 video training for community groups,

1 on organizing film festivals ,

1 introduction to Red Epic camera,

1 Two day workshop on documentary filmmaking

Number of partners: 6

Africalia (Belgium) Tropfest (Australia) Interfilm (Berlin) Carolina for Kibera, Creatives Garage, Influence Films

Number of community screenings in Nairobi: 4 in Kibera, 1 in Mathare

Estimated number that attended community screenings: 10,000

Number of special events: 3

2 graduations (1 co-sponsored by Kenya Film Commission at National Theatre of Kenya

1 event with Heinz Herrmans, Interfilm (Berlin) : Art of Short Film (at Creatives Garage)

Number of Focus on Film newsletters : 28

Number of subscribers to Focus on Film newsletter: 498

Number of followers on twitter: 2,992

Number of Facebook pages: 2 https://www.facebook.com/hotsunfilmschool

https://www.facebook.com/hotsunadvfilm2014

Number of Facebook “Likes”: 2,236

Number of Project Reports on Global Giving (http://www.goto.gg/3632) : 13

Number of donations on Global Giving: 65

Happy New Year and thanks again for thinking of us and supporting

filmmaking training to talented youth in East Africa!

Kelvin, trainee at Hot Sun Foundation

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