Movie lovers!!Mnet opens pop up channels for East African movies

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It’s festive seasons,whats your plan?for movie lovers Mnet has got you covered.

Mnet will for the first time open a pop-up channel featuring the best movies from East Africa. The special festive season pop-up channel called East Africa Movie Fest will be available to DStv subscribers on Compact, Compact Plus and Premium.

The channel will premier new movies for five full hours each day for 8 weeks. East Africa Movie Fest will be available on DStv Channel 197 between December 10, 2018 and February 3, 2019. The channel will open every day at 3pm and run until 12midnight and will feature the best movie titles from Maisha Magic Bongo, Maisha Magic East and Pearl Magic Uganda channels.

 

Here are some of the top movies that will be featured in the channel.

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Top Kenyan productions that will feature include Stella, a film about a spoilt teenager who has everything she wanted until an unfortunate twist of events deters her ambition.

Unable to cope, she moves to the village to live with her aunt where she must learn about hard work and family to survive. Stella will premiere on 19 December at 16.30. Uriah, produced by leading Kenyan film producer Likarion Wainania is a story about a young witty man named Oscar who will do anything to get the woman of his dreams, Uriah. He plans a series of pranks to get her attention, but his ex-girlfriend will not make things easy as she is still in love with Oscar. Catch Uriah on 20 December 2018 at 21.35.

Flowers and Bricks featuring Job, a poor but honest foreman is trying to build his small house in a plot outside town gets entangled with chaotic banks, bureaucratic government agencies, evil brokers and crooked contractors while at the same time his “matrimonial bed” seems to have extra visitors.

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Playboy, a Kenya drama showcases a story around Rikki. Rikki is every girl’s dream boy, and the ultimate bachelor, but he finds himself in an emotional journey with a young girl who teaches him life’s most valuable lessons about love, his daughter.

Tanzania will showcase Kafia Ghetto,the drama tells the story of Leon who lives a life supported by his women. One night, he has to deal with traumatic loss of his lover’s death in his house. He also gets kicked out and has to find money to pay his rent to pay after he is kicked out for 6 months’ rent arears

The East Africa Movie Fest pop-up channel will go live on DStv Channel 197 at 3pm EAT on 10 December 2018 to 3 February 2019 to all DStv subscribers on Compact, Compact Plus and Premium.

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