WANURI WHITE COLLAR | ISSUE 004
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anuri Kahiu is an African writer and filmmaker. Born and raised in Nairobi, she is a rising star in the world film. She co-founded AFROBUBBLEGUM, a production house through which she creates her films. Afrobubblegum is a media company that supports, creates and commissions fun, fierce and frivolous African art. Her projects tell the stories that others hesitate to. In 2008 she completed her first feature film ‘From a whisper’ which was based on the event surrounding the twin bombings of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998. The film won awards at the Africa Movie Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Picture, the Golden Dhow award at Zanzibar International Film Festival and Best Film at Kalasha, Kenya Film and TV awards. This strengthened her zeal and pushed her to do more. She barely took a break and in 2009 she completed two projects. She did a documentary on the life of Nobel Laureate Wangari Mathai for M-Net’s ‘Great Africans’ Series and also did a short sci-fi film ‘Pumzi’ that screened at Sundance film festival in 2010. The short film won best short at Cannes independent film festival May, 2010 and also took Silver at Carthage film festival in 2010.
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A MAGAZINE FOR THE CAREER-PERSON AND ENTREPRENEUR
A MAGAZINE FOR THE CAREER-PERSON AND ENTREPRENEUR
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