Chinese film festival opens in Kenya

STORY: Chinese film festival opens in Kenya DATELINE: Oct. 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:31 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the film festival 2. various of Michael Pundo speaking 3. various of the performance STORYLINE: The 2022 Chinese film festival opened in Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday with a view to boosting Sino-Africa cooperation and cultural exchanges. Ababu Namwamba, newly appointed Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Sports and Arts said in a speech read on his behalf by Michael Pundo, CEO of Kenya Cultural Center, that the film festival is a platform for filmmakers from the two countries to exchange ideas and enhance the viewership of Chinese films by the Kenyan audience. "It is also a concrete action to actively implement the cultural and people-to-people exchange program under the nine plans of the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) that was held in 2021," Pundo said. The film festival was jointly organiz