Consultancy to Train 30 FilmAid Kenya Alumni on screenwriting in Kakuma Refugee Camp at FilmAid

About the project:

FilmAid Kenya has been training media students on basic skills in journalism, Film production, photography among others. In 2020, FilmAid Kenya established Youth Media Hubs. The hubs were designed as a low-cost and sustainable intervention to address the breakdown in social cohesion, the increase in vulnerability among members of the community, and the marginalization in the media that is both a contributing factor to and a result of social breakdown. The hubs have provided a physical point of convergence for a network of support and opportunity for aspiring visual storytellers in target communities, additionally, the media Hubs have given the youth a sustained opportunity to develop their skills and their voices as creative storytellers while expanding their access to audiences and markets. Several FilmAid Kenya’s Multimedia alumni currently run their own production houses, and often FilmAid Kenya, partners and local CBOs recruit them to work on productions. Given the increasing demand for these young entrepreneurs’ services, there is a need to strengthen their skills in screenwriting to enable them to produce high-quality films.

It is against this background that this TOR has been developed to outsource the services of a consultant to “**Train 30 Multimedia Alumni on Screenwriting”**

Expected deliverables:

• Training for Scripting for Fiction and documentary for 30 mentees for 14 days
• Story structures.
• Story arc and outlining.
• Dialogue writing.
• Development of characters.
• Screenplay formatting.

Output:

• 2 Short film scripts of 5 - 7 minutes.
• 2 Documentary scripts of 5 - 7 minutes.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

The consultant shall report directly to the Multimedia Producer. For coordination purposes, the consultant shall work in close consultation with the Multimedia Trainer.