KIGALI, Rwanda — The red carpet was rolled out, the Primus beer was on ice and the young stars of Rwandan film paraded into the Kigali Serena Hotel, where actors, filmmakers and foreign visitors ...

The Rwandan government has set up an independent film commission to bring structure to the country’s growing film industry. Minister of sports and culture Joseph Habineza said the commission would ...

There is rarely anything resembling a "full recovery" for genocide survivors. Visions of people slaughtered by machete, their bodies left strewn over church pews, don't just disappear. Such bloodshed ...

The terrifying genocide in the small African nation of Rwanda just 11 years ago is slowly becoming apparent to Americans.Films like the Academy Award-nominated “Hotel Rwanda” are bringing the horror ...

KIGALI, Rwanda – “Sometimes in April,” a movie on the 1994 Rwanda genocide, premiered Saturday at a stadium that was one of the scenes of slaughter more than a decade ago. It was filmed mostly in ...

On Monday, Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the movie "Hotel Rwanda," was found guilty of terror charges. According to the Associated Press, Rusesabagina was sentenced ...

Over the last few years, several films have recaptured the devastating legacy of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, recreating the unimaginable pain and loss that defined the darkest period in the history of ...

Reporting from Kigali, Rwanda — — Beneath a star-filled African sky, crowds of city dwellers and rural farmers gather before a giant inflatable screen. It’s movie night in Rwanda and thousands have ...

A quarter-century after a brutal genocide devastated the nation, Rwanda is pulling out all the stops to create a viable film and television business. By Scott Roxborough Rwanda, it is fair to say, is ...

First-time filmmaker Felicia Middlebrooks’s self-written and directed documentary Somebody’s Child: The Redemption of Rwanda premiered in Chicago Saturday. The winner of the New York Film Festival’s ...

Critic Joyce Ashuntantang looks at how, in the post-apartheid era, Hollywood's portrayals of Africa and Africans generally miss the mark. Despite Hotel Rwanda’s success in sparking debate about the ...