Kenya Second After South Africa to Screen ‘Inside Story’ at Broadcast Conference

Over 500 film makers, stars, media managers, music producers and digital content developers held back tears  even as  their throats filled with a gush of pain and compassion after the Discovery Channel screened a new African starred film “Inside Story” on the first day of the 2012 Broadcast, Film and Music Africa Conference.

The film which tells the story of a talented Kenyan boy with a dream to play international filled up the audience with mixed emotions as it captured Kalu’s struggles to win both a battle with the virus and that of a twisted football career.

Bruce Rabinowitz of Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership, based in USA, told the star-studded conference that this was the first screening of the film in an African country outside South Africa and was the film’s introduction to African broadcasters.

Kenyan Film Commission CEO, Peter Mutie had joined experts from across the globe, including Envir Fraser, the head of Research, regulatory and Policy at South African  Convergence partners, Belgium based Dr Ann Overbergh, Gregory Olumuya Odutayo of Nigeria’s Royal Roots Communications in an exciting opening session that decried importance of ‘film cities’ and quality production houses across Africa.

Here’s a preview to film ‘Inside Story’…