Held annually in Kenya, FilmAid Kenya Film Festival strives to fulfill FilmAid Kenya’s vision of informing, inspiring, and empowering refugees. Every year, FilmAid Kenya trains, supports, and empowers more than 600 refugee youth to tell their own stories through film, photography, theatre, journalism, radio, and digital media education, with the aim to give young refugees, and their hosting communities, the creative and technical skills necessary to explore issues within their communities and express themselves creatively.

1. 16th Annual
FILMAID FILM FESTIVAL
Prospectus
#RefugeeStories
https://filmaidkenya.org/filmfestival

2. Inform. Engage. Inspire.
Now on its 16th year, FilmAid Kenya Film Festival is held annually and strives to fulfill FilmAid’s vision to Inform.
Engage. Inspire. refugees and their host communities in Kenya.
From stories that Inform about the impact of climate change to personal stories that Engage in addressing
those barriers that hold us back, to stories that Inspire action in the resilience of the human spirit in the
adversities we face, the narratives from the film festival will be a celebration of stories, voices, and cultures
from the communities we serve, from refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp & the Kalobeyei Integrated
Settlement, to Dadaab Refugee Camp.
The key aim(s) of the FilmAid Kenya 16th Film Festival is to;
Share Refugee stories. This year's festival will continue to showcase stories that Inform, Engage, and Inspire
communities, to tell their own stories in their own voice. The stories, through their eyes, will bring a greater
understanding on the impact of those social conditions through the uplifting voices of their storytelling and
creative works.
These stories will de-mystify and shape narratives about refugees. As stories are the catalyst for change as any
one person's story can change the way we think — and in changing the way enough people think, it can
change our world!
The students will share with you stories on inclusion: refugees enrich the cultural fabric of communities that
host them in order to build greater social-economic inclusion and peaceful co-existence
Submissions from independent filmmakers worldwide will be screened in the festival, from Kenyan and global
films that speak to the theme and that are related to refugees and migration, providing an opportunity to
share stories with refugees in the Kenyan camps, allowing for shared artistic communication.
The festival also provides much needed linkages between the students of the program to national and global
artists, enhancing their skills, exposure, and opportunities of future collaboration.
Provide platform for dialogue on refugee rights and other matters on refugee protection with Kenyan and
International communities promoting understanding and creating and enhancing protection space in Kenya.
The dialogues will build and enhance awareness on causation of migration: ‘push’ factors that lead to
migration e.g. climate and the environment (nexus of climate, environment, drought and famine) and
socio-economic reasons (nexus of poverty and work; socio-cultural barriers) and conflict.

4. Kenyan citizens: The larger Kenyan population other than the Host Community are key because their
engagement in the conversation on socialcohesion and integration will generate local, national and
international interest needed to push changes to policy barrier to social integration and self-reliance among
refugees and the host community in Kakuma Refugee Camp & the Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement,and
Dadaab Refugee Camp.
Governments
• National Government: The Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, The Ministry of Interior and National
Administration (including the Department of Refugee Services, immigration and law enforcement).
• County Governments: Turkana, Garissa, Nakuru and Nairobi County Governments.
• Regional Blocks: Embassies of the East African Community, African Union, Inter-Governmental Authority on
Development (IGAD)
Local/National and international media: media is the gatekeeper of society and influences and shapes what
communities think - the agenda setting role of the media. Having the media participate through stories of the
event, content sharing that will be produced for the festival, will engage the wider public(s) in dialogue and
shape perceptions around the refugee and migrant narrative.
Donors and the International Community, Comprising UN, INGO and staff members of Embassies
represented in Kenya: linkages with the diplomatic missions towards facilitating their countries’ support
towards interventions across protection of the refugee sector in Kenya. The engagement of Information
consumers at international level strengthens the push for policy changes by keeping the issues relevant and
borrowing from global successes to social integration and self-reliance.
Private/corporate sector; given the protracted nature of displacement in Kenya, the interest from the typical
humanitarian and development donors has waned over time due to the protracted nature of displacement
affected communities in Kenya. Cascading the avenues of much needed support, the festival will offer a
platform to engage with private/corporate sector donors/foundations to support much needed interventions
within the refugee space in Kenya
Stakeholders

5. Give voice, bring hope, and change lives!
With your partnership, FilmAid Kenya will continue
to provide Skills and Social Development for
refugee and host community youth in creative arts
and self-expression to tell their own stories in their
own voice. This generates leaders within their own
communities, and collaborators with stakeholders
working to protect the health and human rights of
the refugee and host community that is critical in
building confidence, restoring hope, preserving
dignity, and increasing youths’ employment
opportunities that is necessary when communities
access durable solutions.
Commitment to Diversity
Demonstrate your company’s commitment to
elevating artists and amplifying voices from
marginalized communities.
Association with Respected Nonprofit Brand
Some of FilmAid’s partners include The Golden
Globes (HFPA), The Kenya Film Commission, and
the UNHCR
Meaningful Employee Engagement
Provide your employees opportunities to engage
with a cause that meaningfully connects to their
work.
Why Partner with FilmAid Kenya?
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6. Call for entries
Date: 15th July - 10th August 2023
Call for entries, the first activity of the festival
programme, will invite filmmakers from across the
globe to submit their films to the FilmAid ’s 16th Annual
Film Festival. Entries for both feature and short films will
be accepted and will be required to explore topics
around migration, exile and identity. Films will be
submitted through the platform FilmFreeway.
Screenings (Kakuma, Kalobeyei, Dadaab)
Date: 29th August - 1st September 2023
Screenings & Public Dialogue (Nairobi)
Date: 4th September - 6th September 2023
Gala Awards Ceremony
Date: 7th September 2023
Festival Timelines & Activities
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7. Platinum Partner: Sponsorship: $20.000
• Physical branding opportunities in all field locations in Dadaab
Refugee Camp, Kakuma Refugee Camp, the Kalobeyei Integrated
Settlement, and the Nairobi Awards Gala Ceremony.
• Presenter acknowledgments during all screening events and at
the Gala Awards Ceremony
• Speaker opportunity during the Gala Awards Ceremony.
• Branding on all collaterals to be developed for the festival (brand
identity incorporation on promotional materials including but not
limited to banners, shirts, e-brochures, website, and event
program(s).
• Branding on the pre-packed film festival show that will be shared
globally with partners and a global audience following the festival.
Gold Partner: Sponsorship: $10.000
• Physical branding opportunities in all field locations in Dadaab
Refugee Camp, Kakuma Refugee Camp, the Kalobeyei Integrated
Settlement, and the Nairobi Awards Gala Ceremony.
• Presenter acknowledgments during all screening events and at
the Gala Awards Ceremony
• Branding on all collaterals to be developed for the festival (brand
identity incorporation on promotional materials, including but not
limited to banners, shirts, e-brochures, website, and event
program(s).
Silver Partner: Sponsorship: $5.000
• Branding on all collaterals to be developed for the festival (brand
identity incorporation on promotional materials including but not
limited to banners, shirts, e-brochures, website, and event
program(s).
Partnership Opportunities

8. About Skills and Social Development Strategic Program Area
About FilmAid Kenya
Founded in 1999, FilmAid Kenya (FAK) harnesses the power of film and employs a variety of innovative channels (e.g., SMS,
radio, and mobile information systems) to disseminate lifesaving, practical, educational, and entertaining content, and
information into the heart of communities. Working with donors, such as UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, US Department of State,
Porticus, DW Akademie, and other humanitarian agencies, FAK has been a part of Kenya's Refugee Operation since 2002.
Over the course of two decades, FAK has embedded itself within the communities where they work, establishing trusted
relations, ensuring inclusion and accountability, and meeting the diverse information needs of refugees.
Through the production and dissemination of film, radio, print, SMS, and digital media created in collaboration with
communities, FAK reaches over 400,000 refugees, asylum seekers, and host community members every year in 14
languages. FAK also empowers the next generation of storytellers, particularly youth and women, through media and
skills-based training to empower them to challenge harmful social norms, inclusively engage diverse persons, and meet
the information needs of their own communities.
FilmAid conducts a one-year Media and Entrepreneurship Training Programme targeting refugee youth and youth
from the host community in Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement to enhance young
refugees' ability to tell their own stories and advocate for their communities' causes. The Media and Entrepreneurship
training program provides youth with the technical skills necessary to explore issues within their own communities and to
express themselves creatively.
Through FilmAid’s extensive programming in Nairobi, Kakuma and Dadaab, each year, FilmAid is able to train, support
and empower more than 100 refugee youth to tell their own stories through the power of film and other media.
After a one-year program in Film, photography, journalism, radio, and digital media, FilmAid transitions graduating
students into a FilmAid Youth Multi-media Hub. Here additional skills are delivered through on-the-job training,
mentoring, and online learning to enhance their personal development to become leaders, collaborators with
humanitarian agencies, and other stakeholders working to protect the refugee and host community's health and human
rights.
The Youth Media Hub is designed as a low-cost and sustainable intervention to address the breakdown in socio-economic
cohesion, the increase in social-economic vulnerability among community members, and the marginalization in the
media. The Youth Multi-media Hub will provide a physical point of convergence for a network of support, training, and
up-skilling, and the development of new areas of knowledge such as media technology for aspiring visual storytellers in
target communities. The Youth Multi-media Hub are outfitted with ICT equipment, Film making equipment, and Media
learning materials where the targeted youth will have access.

9. A strong communications component will engage a diverse audience of thought leaders, creatives, industry
participants, activists, experts, and the general public.
FilmAid will work with press and sponsors' public relations teams to highlight the talent and tenacity of refugee
youth whose bold visions for the future are animated by their experience overcoming conflict, oppression, famine
and exclusion from the cultural and political life in their home countries.
Promotion and Communication
FilmAid Film Festival Press Coverage Has Included CNN International And NTV Kenya:

10. Stella Suge
Executive Director, FilmAid Kenya
ssuge@filmaid.org
FAWE House, Chania Avenue, Off Wood Avenue
P. O. Box 21751-00505, Nairobi, Kenya
CONTACT US
filmfestival@filmaid.org Socials @filmaidkenya