International Images Film Festival for Women (IIFF) 2013
Application deadline: 30 June 2013

Film Submissions are now open for the International Images Film Festival for Women (IIFF) 2013. IIFF is the African continent’s fastest growing gender sensitive film festival with 12 prizes in 12 categories, including two prizes in the SIZE category. Accepted are documentaries, feature films and shorts featuring protagonists or men portraying championing gender sensitivity. To promote local Zimbabwean film productions IIFF is calling Zimbabwean filmmakers to participate in the newly introduced Shasha/ Ingcitshi/ Zim Experts (SIZE) category. This is a platform for local filmmakers to tell the Zimbabwean story the Zimbabwean way. Stories that inform, inspire, educate locals and positively impact on their communities. Apply here

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Community Publishing Assistant: Africa Community Publishing and Development Trust (ACPDT)
Deadline: 31 May 2013

Duties
-Edit, and develop youth and children’s voices.
-Update ACPD’s website and publish community publishing messages electronically
-Update previous publications.
-Documentary and community based research.
-Co-facilitate with community publishing workshops.
-Edit local publications.
-Preparatory documents, testing and final checking of national publications.
-Assist with the monitoring of readership responses.
-Write proposals and reports for the department and edit organisational documents produced by other departments.
-In-house training

Qualifications and Requirements
-A relevant degree
-Strong research, analytical thinking, writing and editing skills, demonstrated in published work
-Strong human relations and team building skills
-Creativity
-Strong motivation to learn
-New media skills
-At least 5 years relevant experience
-Commitment to social justice, and compatibility with ACPD’s vision, mission, values and principles

To apply
Please send in your applications to The Admin Coordinator: allienp [at] acpdt [dot] org

Volunteer or make a donation to the SPCA…

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Africa Day, we invited our subscribers from around Zimbabwe to send us an SMS slogan, and win one of two t-shirts generously donated by graphic designer and generally fun and funky guy Baynham Goredema.

We received nearly 1,500 slogans from across the country, which ran the gamut from silly to serious. So it took some doing to choose our two winning slogans, but eventually we did:

• Africa, our Africa. Laugh dictators and oppressors away. Ha ha ha.
• Africa stop chasing democracy: Ride it!

Where we could connect our subscribers to a location, we mapped them, to show the voices for Africa Day pouring in from around the country:

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You can view the map full screen – and click on points to read different subscribers’ slogans, and zoom in to see some of the denser areas close up.

You can download the full list of slogans here.

The Harare SPCA regularly holds a Fun Show and Dog Walk at Mukuvisi Woodland and Nature Reserve. Yesterday lots of dogs (and owners) were on show. There were a few dogs with Adopt Me Please bibs on. If you are able to give one of them a loving and happy home please go down to Harare SPCA today!