MFDI Tanzania in collaboration with JHUCCP Tanzania, is embarking on an exciting and innovative project, engaging the vibrant and growing Tanzanian film industry to coproduce feature films that embrace Entertainment-Education. The production process will focus on capacity building of local Swahiliwood filmmakers, and their Entertainment-Education themes will reach wide audiences
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When Detective Robert Demango, one of the forces’ finest, is given three weeks notice for lack of performance; he doesn’t give a damn. He knows his days as Dar es Salaams most celebrated detective are over. Riddled with guilt for his wife’s death, depressed and drinking heavily, he’s given up
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Rufu is educated and smart but restless and angry. He can’t hold down a job and is easily distracted by drink, dope and women, which have landed him nothing but trouble. At just 22 he’s already on ARVs and slipping into a lifestyle dominated by petty-crime. Rufu is from a
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Mzee Njimba and Mzee Kondo, friends since childhood are also related through the marriage of their children. Unfortunately their children passed away leaving Kondo to look after their shared grandson Chumi. Njimba is an arrogant, belligerent man known for his abilities as a drummer and arranger of dances (Ngoma), including
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If you think there is no film industry in Tanzania, think again! Adding to the well known industries of Hollywood, Bollywood, and Nollywood (Nigeria), there is another, well established but elsewhere unknown, wood- Swahiliwood. And it’s been around for over ten years! MFDI is embarking on an exciting and innovative
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The first of the twelve part Swahiliwood Workshop Series has officially begun! The workshop series will see the realization of three feature length Entertainment-Education films. This first workshop is engaging 25 local popular film producers and scriptwriters, with the intention of: 1. Giving them background information on the Swahiliwood Project,
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Media for Development International Tanzania (MFDI-TZ) seeks to promote development through socially conscious programming in Tanzania and Africa at large. We produce film, video, television, radio serials and music, in Tanzania, for Tanzania, by Tanzanians.
MFDI-TZ works closely with development agencies, schools, hospitals, faith based organizations, the government and other institutions by providing them with engaging and comprehensive media tools to use in the field.
