A multimillion-dollar business, a beautiful young wife, and all the trappings of success should make any man happy, but Ansu, Modou Musa, is a serial adulterer and it is breaking Amie, Awa Gassama, his young wife’s heart. For Ansu, “Prevention” is the key when playing around with other women, but he fails to realise that what he fears the most will haunt his heart forever… because one wrong move is all it takes…

Arrou (Prevention) is an award-winning film from the stables of Vinasha Productions of The Gambia. Directed by Segun Oguntola, and starring Modou Musa Ceesay, Awa Gassama, Alagie Saihou Saar, Habibatou Jallow, Arrou won Best Contribution to African Film and TV Development at the African Movie Academy Awards (AMA Awards) in 2006, and screened at the 2007 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Arrou is in Wollof with English Subtitles. Watch it only on the African Movie Channel - www.africanmoviechannel.tv.

Vinasha Productions is currently raising finance for its new motion picture Drum Bass and Piano, an urban music drama that follows Osborne Hawthorne, a white bankrupt classical pianist who, through midlife crisis unwittingly joins forces with Leo Burgess, a young, black renegade music producer. In an unlikely partnership, Leo and Osborne run Sub FM, a pirate radio station, and together they must overcome a violent turf war, corrupt cops, personal conflict, the credit crunch, and terrorist advances if they are to revitalise their waning careers, and revolutionise London’s classical and urban music scenes. www.drumbassandpiano.com.

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The Africa in Motion (AiM), Edinburgh African Film Festival has announced the shortlist for their film competition, which consists of eight short films by young and emerging African filmmakers who have not completed feature-length films.

The films on the shortlist span fiction and documentary genres: a magic realist tale from Tunisia; a Moroccan story of childhood nostalgia; a single-setting short from Egypt; an edgy tale about two gangsters set in the high-octane Nigerian capital Lagos; a heart-warming love story from Mozambique; and three films from South Africa: a stylistically experimental documentary on anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko; an innovative stop motion animation short; and a fascinating documentary on two lovers and community activists in the Cape.

The shortlist consists of the following eight films:

Red & Blue, Mahmood Soliman, Egypt, 2007
Sellam and Demetan, Mohamed Amin, Morocco, 2008
I Love You, Rogério Manjate, Mozambique, 2007
Area Boys, Omelihu Nwanguma, Nigeria/UK, 2007
Magic Crop, Anis Lassoued, Tunisia, 2006
Agenda, Diek Grobler, South Africa, 2007
Biko's Children, Vuyisa Breeze Yoko, South Africa, 2007
Pam & Ashraf, Robyn Rorke, South Africa, 2007

All selected short films will be screened during the Africa in Motion film festival (23 October - 2 November 2008), and the winner will be announced at a special awards ceremony after the screenings. There will also be an Audience Choice Award, voted for by the viewing public at the AiM film festival, to be announced at the end of the festival. For the festival programme, visit www.africa-in-motion.org.uk.

The winning film will be selected by a jury consisting of acclaimed Burkinabe filmmaker Gaston Kaboré; writer, presenter and filmmaker Zina Saro-Wiwa; Director of the Scottish Documentary Institute Noe Mendelle; and high-profile film critic, writer and producer Mark Cousins. The winning filmmaker will receive £1,000 prize money to assist them in their filmmaking career.

“We were impressed with the overall quality and standard of the entries”, says festival director Lizelle Bisschoff. “We received films all over the continent – from almost 20 African countries. This competition is part of the festival's commitment to support filmmaking talent on the continent and it is our hope that the competition will contribute to making it a bit easier for aspiring African filmmakers to fulfil their dreams.”

All eight films will shortly be available FREE on the African Movie Channel - www.africanmoviechannel.tv

In spite of the media blitz about mortgage rates, recession and so on, some market leading lenders were asked among other things to find some bright spots in the market, and here is what they had to say:

“The reality is that most people are still able to get a mortgage or remortgage so we have to remember it's not all doom and gloom at the moment”.

“Despite all the doom and gloom, the mortgage market is still a very active market. The remortgage market is as strong as it has ever been and will continue to do so. Fixed-rates are coming down, reflecting the lower cost of fixed-rate funds, with lenders passing on these decreases to customers.”

“There is no doubt the market has changed but it has not changed as much as you might think from reading the papers. There are still over 5000 mortgage products on the market. People may be missing out purely because they believe they may not be eligible.”

Also, we have seen some competitive rates recently, and as more lenders offer good rates, this it will increase competitiveness in the market. There are also still mortgages available for first time buyers and higher LTV customers.

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