Perivi is an award winning Namibian filmmaker. He grew up in Windhoek and studied film at Columbia College in Los Angeles where he attained his BA. His first feature film The Unseen had its world premiere at the Pan African film festival in Los Angeles...
Jean-Pierre Bekolo is a noted African film director from Cameroon. He already garnered attention at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut film Quartier Mozart (1992), with a style that is playful, comic, and sardonic became the representative of a new generation that has been...
Yemane I. Demissie is an independent filmmaker who has received numerous national and international grants and fellowships for his work including Best Picture nominee at M-NET’s All Africa Film Awards, the Walter Mosley award for Best Documentary, the Locarno Film Festival Production Grant, the Paulin...
After attending Film school at Boston University, Jeff Wynne began his career on the production staff at United Artists Pictures and MGM Pictures. Under the Sr. V.P. of Production, he helped supervise physical production of thirty feature films. Jeff was a quarterfinalist in the Motion Picture...
Esther de Rothschild is a New York City public school teacher, and has worked in education for over 10 years across four continents. Her Humanities class at the School of the Future focuses on story: reading, writing, acting and analyzing true and fictional tales from...
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Malia Scotch Marmo wrote Steven Spielberg’s fantasy, Hook, and also served as associate producer on the film. Her first produced film was “Once Around”, directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Malia received story credit for Madeline. Malia’s uncredited work in order of the size of her contributing as...
Joel Karekezi graduated from Cinecours in 2008. His 2009 short The Pardon won awards at international festivals. His first feature Imbabazi: The Pardon received a Göteborg Festival Fund grant and won the Grand Nile Prize at Luxor African Film Festival 2014 & Special Mention at...
James Gayo, a well-known cartoonist in East Africa and a filmmaker, is among the early Maisha alumni. Apart from his two short films, The Trip and The Retirement Day, Gayo has written and directed for TV broadcasts. His recent works include the TASWIRA YETU documentary...
