Archive for January 22nd, 2008
Gaborone Film Festival (GFS)
by Paula on Jan.22, 2008, under Film festivals
The festival is still going strong 27 years after its inception . A representative for GFS, Mr Sheldon Weeks, said this non-profit organization began with a 35mm projector at the National Museum in the Little Theatre in 1980.
GFS mission has remained the same, to show films that are not normally available in Botswana.
GFS has managed to bring to its members African, Cuban, German, Swedish, Chinese and Russian movies.
GFS kick-started the year with January being a new and old classics movie month, February as an Italian Film Festival and March as a Subcontinent Trilogy movie time.
The first movie of January was the 1994 Belgian/Italian movie called Farrell.
