Founded in 2011 in Nairobi, partially supported by Spain, the Slum Film Festival is a community based annual film festival featuring stories from, by, and about people living in slum areas. The Slum Film Festival website describes itself as “a celebration of the creativity of filmmakers living and working in slums, as well as an opportunity to promote a diverse range of films within communities with limited or no access to cinema”. Spain and some EU members are forming cultural bureaus and will promote Spanish culture. We are also working and celebrating the music festival of Kenya,” Ambassador Javier Viedma of Spain said. “This year, we finally had lecturer of Spanish in Kenya and we will do this within the UN framework and also with Kenyan universities.

Source: The Star October 16, 2019 17:48 UTC