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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. The British actor and rapper, who has Sierra Leonean and ...