Sunday, February 20, 2022

Of "African" Products and "Mzungu" Music

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In an entrepreneurship forum I recently attended, one participant was quite vocal about the need for entrepreneurs to provide African goods ...
Friday, February 4, 2022

Interview: Marvin Glover - Director of Red Gate Sessions

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  ROFFEKE : Many of your artistic works center around themes of hope and empowerment. If, as the saying goes, "bad news sells" why...
Monday, January 3, 2022

Screenplays - ROFFEKE Official Selections 2021 (Part 2)

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“Surreal” is one word that could be used to describe “Tomi Thirteen”, a screenplay by Max Sparber and Coco Mault, and “Tethered” a screenpla...
Monday, December 27, 2021

ROFFEKE Interviews: 2021 and top 21 from previous years

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I do not outsource the very important task of posting ROFFEKE interviews on the ROFFEKE blog. This is because I greatly respect the diverse ...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Light and Dark - ROFFEKE Official Selections 2021 (Part 1)

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The Christmas story is a story of light and dark. That “star of wonder, star of night, star with royal beauty bright” shone on a dark period...
Monday, November 15, 2021

Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat”, LUWTEN’s “Sleeveless”, Metallica’s therapy and Therapeia by M.Q. Powell

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Please  Can I take a seat? Frankly, I could use your company now  - Sleeveless by LUWTEN  Window seat  Don’t want nobody next to me  I just ...
Monday, November 8, 2021

Clay Calloway of Sing 2 and Ellery Demarco of One-Hit Wonder (Directed by Amanda Dow)

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One-Hit Wonder: “A cab driver takes a former pop star on a one way Twilight Zone-like ride.” Together with Jane Petrov, Andie Ximenes produc...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Interview: Max Sparber - one of the screenwriters of Tomi Thirteen

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ROFFEKE: What inspired you two to write Tomi Thirteen? Max Sparber: We've been working on one version of this script or another for a l...

ROFFEKE YouTube Playlists

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ROFFEKE Animation - World Audio Visual Heritage Day Photo by: pexels.com/@roman-odintsov ROFFEKE South-South Photo by: pexels.com/@jaksonmar...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Anime, Rock and Tomi Thirteen screenplay by Max Sparber and Coco Mault

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“Whether you’re a die-hard Otaku (a young obsessed fan) or a total newbie to anime, there’s plenty of Japanese music to discover on Spotify....
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Satire in Horror Films: The Case of “Witchin” - directed by Christina Diamantara

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“Both comedy and horror are often viewed by critics and the general public as “low brow” genres with little social relevance and few redeemi...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Interview with Teddy Gitau, Kirimi Kiage and Blake Simpson - Scriptwriters of "Tethered"

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Teddy Gitau: You lecture scriptwriting at African Digital Media Institute. In what ways does teaching scriptwriting help you with your own s...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

Interview: Egor Gavrilin - Director of The Bluestocking Music Video for "Never Ready"

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ROFFEKE: I loved your interview on Shortcloseup.com so for this ROFFEKE interview, I would like to ask some follow-up questions: In the in...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

The Outcast Kid, Tom Morello and Politics

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  “When I first moved to Hollywood, I thought I was going to rule the Sunset Strip with my heavy metal guitar licks…that didn’t work out. No...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Mike Messier: Lessons from 2020, New novel, Screenwriting versus Novel writing

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ROFFEKE Alumnus Mike Messier shares what he's been up to and the lessons he learned from 2020.   1. What is your novel about and what ma...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

International Women's Day: Spotlight on ROFFEKE Interns, Reviewers and "Clara"

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Tomorrow, 8th March, is International Women's Day. ROFFEKE salutes all women, including ROFFEKE former interns Josephine Koima and Lesle...
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Monday, January 11, 2021

Reviews: Tired Eyes (Written and Directed by Ryan Martin Brown)

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As someone who is "schlepping" a small rock 'n' roll film festival in a less than conducive environment, I could totally r...

Reviews: Vices (A poem by Matt Wohlfarth, performed by John Vento)

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  Reviewer: Love Kassim My first instinct after hearing that poem was switching off my phone and going off grid😂 Vices is a poem that enume...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

This Day on Kenya Rocks: January 7th, 2008

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Jan 7, 2008  hey happy new year to u too the start of the year hasnt been too good but im sure we can improve that maybe we can do a rock bl...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

ROFFEKE OFFICIAL SELECTION 2020 (Partial Listing)

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A Youtube playlist featuring some of the short films, music videos and rockumentaries submitted to ROFFEKE in 2020. Watch it here .  'Ti...

Review: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

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Reviewer: Love Kassim The o pening shot seems so familiar ; two black boys in period costumes on the run in the forest and it clicks : they ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Wine Game: A Metaphor for 2020?

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Wine Game is a laugh-out-loud, 4-minute short film that I think could be a metaphor for the year 2020: 00:16 - Pandemic, lockdowns. 00:25 - ...