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Zambia International Film Festival
The Zambia International Film Festival (ZAMIFF) (formerly the SOTAMBE Documentary Film and Arts Festival, then SOTAMBE International Film Festival) was established in 2014 by the two founders - Martina Mwanza and Daniel Mwale - who share the same passion for film and arts. The name SOTAMBE comes from a Bemba expression “so tambe” meaning “come and watch”.

The Zambia International Film Festival is run by the SOTAMBE Documentary Film and Arts Organization, currently known as the SOTAMBE Film Institute, that was incorporated in 2016.

ZAMIFF is the biggest and most consistent film festival in Zambia promoting Southern African Filmmakers.

It runs for seven days every September and it consists of documentary movie screenings that are followed by panel discussions targeting students from colleges and universities, as well as screenings of local and international productions that are followed by discussions with the producers and directors on challenges, they faced during the production process.

Festival’s main value lies in networking opportunities (over 100 filmmakers from Southern African Region meet each year) and Masterclasses.

At the glamorous Awards night, winners are announced in the following categories: Best Feature Film – Southern Africa, Best Documentary – Southern Africa, Best Short Film – Southern Africa, Best Director – Southern Africa and the SOTAMBE Award for the Best Arising Zambian Filmmaker.

In 2022 organizers added three new categories: Best Cinematography – Southern Africa, Best Actor – Southern Africa and Best Female Actor – Southern Africa.

History

2014 – 2016: SOTAMBE Documentary Film and Arts Festival

Zambia International Film Festival (ZAMIFF) began in Kitwe, Copperelt Province, Zambia in October 2014 as the SOTAMBE Documentary Film and Arts Festival. It was founded by Martina Mwanza and Daniel Mwale.

During the first years, SOTAMBE Festival focused on screening of international documentary films and target audience were students from colleges and universities.

The goal of the festival was to educate youths on the important issues in society and spark discussions. Each movie screening was followed up by the panel discussion. Panel consisted of Government representatives, NGO personnels and academicians to further expand on the topic and answer questions. Festival featured films such as Miners Shot Down and hosted discussion with the production team led by Rehad Desai (SA).

Further, each year SOTAMBE Festival happens under carefully selected theme narrowing the focus of the festival and its activities and Festival’s theme song for that particular year, for example: Inclusive communities, Common Endeavors, and The Future belongs to Us.

Zambian youth audience was very inquisitive but also suggested that they want to watch documentary films from their own environment made by Zambians. This made organizers open up SOTAMBE Festival to Zambian submissions of documentaries, features and short films. Zambian film industry was just booming and upcoming filmmakers were hungry for the platform where they can showcase their films. SOTAMBE won their hearts and their trust in the Festival landed the organizers first financial partner Multichoice Zambia in 2017.

2017 – 2019: SOTAMBE International Film Festival

The year of 2017 marks the boom of the Zambian TV industry. The same year, MultiChoice Zambia opened Zambezi Magic Channel consisting of TV series produced in Zambia for Southern African Audience. Through high profile trainings by Multichoice, Zambian filmmakers began to shoot TV series such as City on Fire, Security Guards, Zuba, Mpali and many more.

The main attraction of the 4th edition of the Festival in 2017 was a filmmaking conference entitled: Business in Film. The conference highlighted the importance of monetary benefits in the film industry and the fact that filmmaking should be seen as an occupation, not just a hobby. The main speakers: Musola Cathrine Kaseketi, Changa Kalumba and Justine Kangwa received a lot of valid questions from the audience. This was followed up by the VIP Discussion between filmmakers, MultiChoice Zambia and Independent Broadcasting Authority.

Alongside of the Festival, the organization SOTAMBE Documentary Film and Arts Organization changed its name to the SOTAMBE Film Institute and began to organize capacity building workshops and filmmaking bootcamps.

Festival’s theme for 2018 was “These are the days” - celebrating Zambian Filmmakers and SOTAMBE received over 70 local submissions from places such as Samfya, Solwezi, Livingstone, Lusaka, Chibolyia, Kitwe, Chibuluma and Ndola. With the continuous support from MultiChoice, SOTAMBE hosted first international Masterclass on TV and Film Production led by Warren Bleskly and Sirraj Cassiem from Blade Postproduction (SA).

Theme song entitled SOTAMBE was produced by popular singer and human rights advocate Brian Bwembya known as B’Flow.

In 2019 under the theme “Southern African Reels”, SOTAMBE Festival opened its doors to Southern African Filmmakers introducing new competing categories which pushed Zambian filmmakers to work even harder. More than 60 films were screened at the festival that year and over 100 filmmakers from Zambia and Southern Africa attended yet the biggest edition of SOTAMBE and this was despite the fact that the Festival is located in Kitwe and not the capital city.

SOTAMBE also hosted amazing panel discussions with local Producers, Masterclass on Mobile Camera Filmmaking with Siraaj Cassiem (SA) and Women in Filmmaking conference with Zambian women film leaders like Cassie Kabwita, Jessie Chisi, Becky Ngoma and Bridget Kashiba. SOTAMBE Festival also introduced Best Female Filmmaker award.

Theme song “Proudly African” was produced by Kantu and SOTAMBE was labeled by the participants as the “Cannes of Zambia” as all major key film industry players met there.

2020 – 2021: Covid years

World crisis of COVID-19 shaken down many film festivals all over the world, including the SOTAMBE International Film Festival. Sponsorship dropped to zero but the organizers did not give up and put together an online awards ceremony in 2020 and hybrid edition of the festival in 2021. This consistency showed real commitment to celebrate local filmmakers as the SOTAMBE awards were the only art-oriented events happening in those two years in Zambia.

2022: Birth of the ZAMBIA International Film Festival

The 9th edition of the SOTAMBE International Film Festival in 2022 took place for the first time in Lusaka, capital city of Zambia. The decision was made by the managing director Martina Mwanza, who saw the need to rebrand the Festival after the Covid-19 downfall and bring something new. Over 200 submissions were made internationally to SOTAMBE that year and the Festival for the first time hosted Film Distributor – Wangeci Muraye from Media Pros Africa (Kenya) receiving great attention by filmmakers.

Among other wins that year, Festival for the first-time screened feature films at the Cinema (as opposed of the conference rooms) and brought together representatives from Zambia, SA, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Uganda, Kenya and USA.

Despite the fact that the organizers could not retrieve the usual corporate support after Covid-19 downfalls, and the 9th edition only run at the 40% of the budget, SOTAMBE Festival was pronounced by the international participants as one of the best Networking Festivals in Southern Africa with high levels of hospitality.

At the Awards ceremony on 24th September 2022, the Minister of Youth, Sport and Arts, Hon. Elvis Nkandu elevated the Festival into the Zambia International Film Festival (ZAMIFF) and committed the Government support for the following years.

2022 also marks the opening of the Certificate Programme in Filmmaking – 10 months certificate programme – designed by the SOTAMBE Film Institute in partnership with ZAMCOM college. The programme lays down the foundation of the first ever official Zambian Film School.

Notability

Many notable independent filmmakers attended the SOTAMBE International Film Festival over the years, including Rehad Desai, Warren Bleskly, Siraj Cassiem, David Henson Greathouse, Jiri Pasz, Leonard Amanya and local ones: Cathrine Kaseketi, Jessie Chisi, Becky Ngoma, Cassie Kabwita, Yoweli Chungu, Owas Mwape, Henry BJ Phiri,  Abraham Kabwe, Wycliff Mwamba and many more.

Managing Directors

Capuccinoblack (talk) 09:02, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Martina Mwanza –    2014 – 2022