Abbas Tyrewala is a Mumbai-based scriptwriter and filmmaker. He began writing advertising copy while still in college, and got a job with O&M advertising as soon as he dropped out. Within a year, he realized that he wanted to write for movies, not commercials. He...
I was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya and started my professional career in screenwriting in 2007. After a successful career in News anchoring, I started writing for the TV series Makutano Junction, which after several seasons I became the assistant script editor. I also...
I am a Film Editor and a Maisha Alumni in 2006 as an Editor. I have 12 years of work experience having worked on “Centre 4” as my 1st Big Project. I have been in the film industry since 2002 and worked on the following...
Director: Zippy Kimundu and Mira Nair Country: Uganda (2014) Genre: Documentary Time: 13.12 min An inspiring creative documentary that follows the story of one of Uganda’s unsung heroes – Robert Katende. Popularly known as ’Coach Robert’, he was able to transform a little unknown slum in the outskirts of...
Director: Jules Sibomana Country: Rwanda (2014) Genre: Drama Time: 13.53 min This is a story of a young deaf boy who faces the challenge of integrating with other children, due to inability to communicate. He watches as others play soccer sadly. He then comes up with an idea to...
Director: Owino Sang’iewa Country: Kenya (2014) Genre: Drama Time: 14.30 min The film deals with an age-old custom among the Luo tribe in Kenya on cleansing after the death of one’s husband. It looks at the effects of this tradition in modern day Kenya with the advent of HIV...
After film school in Amsterdam, where I majored in Directing at the School of Audio Engineering and Film Academy, I briefly worked for Sony England at the International Broadcasting Convention, IBC in Amsterdam RAI for two years (2003-2004) where I exhibited their newest cameras to...
Lukasz Konopa graduated from the National Film and Television School in the UK (MA Documentary Direction). Before that, he attended the Katowice Film and Television School in Poland. His films have played at numerous festivals around the world, such as, Hot Docs, Clermont-Ferrand, Camerimage, SXSW,...
Meena Nanji is an award-winning filmmaker who has produced, written and directed independent documentaries and experimental videos. Her first feature documentary, View From A Grain of Sand (2006), about the last 30 years of women’s rights in Afghanistan, won several awards at international film festivals...
Director: Patricia Olwoch Country : Uganda (2014) Genre: Documentary Time: 8 mins My Prison Diary’ is an Essay documentary is a story about the displacement of a people, and more specifically the journey of a young Ugandan woman who has grown up in exile looking for a place to...
