I have to admit I am really pleased with the response Love Games has received. It’s been an overwhelming success, and I do believe it’s genuine praise we’ve been receiving.
This has been the first real long form (ok ignore documentaries) that I’ve done since wrapping Shuga: Love, Sex, Money last year, and I’m glad that Zambia has something it too can be proud of. As much as I’m proud to have my name associated with the product, I think it’s important to keep reminding ourselves that our success and our failures, are all our successes and failures as we try to develop our country to the great country it can be. Why should it only be football (ehem) we can hold our heads high for being the champions of Africa – a title we will retain in the upcoming Afcon games! Why can’t we showcase our talents and accomplishments in the arts too? With Love Games we wanted to showcase young acting talent, but also our fashion and our music, and combine our traditions with modernism for a young audience to watch and discuss. And I think we’re doing it.
Love Games, for me, is just a start to what our TV and film industry can be and with more support it can grow to compete on a global level – it’s time that our stories our told too!
Watch Love Games here and let me know what you think of it!
Love Games Episode 1 from Media365 on Vimeo.
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February 23, 2013 at 8:03 pm
MissBigShot
I watched all three episodes today and I must admit that is the best quality Zambian TV programme I have seen.
It can totally compete at an international level. The picture quality is very high. The story line as well is very real and engaging. It’s not like past Zambian TV programmes I have seen where it’s obvious acting if you know what I mean. No it’s no play circle!
Well done and I am very impressed. And as for the critics in Jay Z style they can all say how to do it but they never did it! You are onto something! People will hate on what they envy !
All the best
x
April 4, 2013 at 10:16 am
Lu
Hi I’m love love loving Love Games!, I’m hooked it just keeps getting better with each episode. Don’t listen to the haters props to everyone who made Love Games possible and keep up the good work … Once this series is over I will be waiting in anticipation for the next one.
I watched and was hooked on the Kenyan TV show Shuga which you were part of (both the first and second series) absolutely loved them both. I don’t think that you can ever compare Shuga and Love Games even though the messages they are trying to convey are the same, I will say this though I have found that as a Zambian living in the Diaspora, I relate more to Love Games than I ever did when I was watching Shuga, the message for me is even stronger through my viewing of Love Games. I liked the use of vernacular language and cultural elements such as showing Zambian marriage traditions and especially I liked the showcasing of Lusaka seeing places I have visited whilst I have been in Lusaka and places that I am still as yet to see.
I will say again I am loving the show. I understand that once the show is aired on ZNBC, it is followed by a discussion programme, discussing the issues raised during the respective programme, I wanted to ask is there anyway of you uploading these discussion programmes to your Vimeo page, it would be really interesting to hear what the views of Zambians in Zambia are relating to the issues raised in individual episodes?