Lola Kenya Screen, the annual international audiovisual media
platform-festival, production workshop and market-for children and youth in eastern Africa held in Nairobi every second week of August, has changed its festival dates from August 4-9, 2008 to August 11-16, 2008.

In a Press Statement released in Germany on June 3, 2008, Lola Kenya Screen director Ogova Ondego explained the change has been ocassioned by'unscheduled change in the holiday calendar of public schools in Kenya. Lola Kenya Screen regrets this change but cannot help it as our primary target audience are holidaying school-going children and
youth.'

Ondego is currently attending the bi-annual Prix Jeunesse festival in Munich, Germany, where he is presenting the Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media initiative for children and youth among international partners of the world's leading television programmes for children and youth. He is also presenting AFRICAN FOLK TALES ANIMATED, the DVD compilation of short films made by children during the annual Lola Kenya Screen film production workshop.

Lola Kenya Screen has also announced the short-listing of applicants to its various skill-development programmes and selected films from 52 nations. The organisation will release its festival line up to the media in Nairobi on June 10, 2008.