LONDON, England (CNN) -- Resourceful African filmmakers are using cell phones to tell their stories in spite of political censorship. Art school student Kiripi Katembo Siku listens during a mobile phone filmmaking workshop at the Académie des Beaux Arts in Kinshasa. Kiripi Katembo Siku, an art school student from the Democratic Republic of Congo is one such director who shot his first film using only a mobile phone. The ingeniously devised "Voiture en Carton" ("Cardboard Car") provides a rare glimpse of street-life in Kinshasa, the country's capital, while highlighting the lengths filmmakers must go to in circumventing the eye of the law.
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French Filmmaker organises mobile movie workshops in developing nations
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Faced with technical and political problems whilst teaching in Kinshasa
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Congolese pupil's film nominated at Pocket Films Festival in Paris
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Workshops have taken on momentum of their own
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