About

 

 

Kantarama Gahigiri @ IMDB

Her recent achievements as a writer/director include

Honour and Awards
  • Best Short Film Award - POULAIN D
  • Avant-Garde Award (Mashariki African Film Festival, Rwanda) - December 2021
  • Best Director Award (Switzerland Diaspo Awards) - November 2021
  • Honorable Mention of Mostra de Cinemas Africanos Award (FIFF Cotonou, Bénin) - October 2021
  • Best Documentary Short Film presented to director Kantarama Gahigiri (Short Encounters IFF, Greece) - July 2021
  • Best Documentary Short Film presented to producer Olivier Zobrist (Short Encounters IFF, Greece) - July 2021
  • Best Editing Nomination (Short Encounters IFF, Greece) - July 2021
  • NYWIFT Outstanding Female Content Creator Award (New York Women In Film & Television at Nova Frontier Film Festival) - June 2021
  • Best Documentary Short (Nova Frontier Film Festival) - May 2021
  • Expanded Shorts Jury Award (This Human World Film Festival Austria) - December 2020
  • Best Short Film - Africa Shorts (Arica Nativa Film Festival Chile) - November 2020
  • Best Short Film (Rastro Film Festival Brasil) - June 2020
  • Award of Merit (IndieFEST Film Awards Los Angeles) - February 2017
  • Best Animated Short Award (Berlin Independent Film Festival) - February 2017
  • Festival Award (Festival Effervescence, France) - October 2016
  • Foundation Award 2016 (Fondation Suzanne Huber / SGUP / LODH) - May 2016
  • Best Directing Award (Chelsea Film Festival New York) - October 2015
  • Audience Choice Award (Delémont-Hollywood Film Festival) - September 2015
  • Festival Grand Prix (Nador Film Festival) - May 2015
  • Outstanding Ensemble Cast Award (Nador Film Festival) - May 2015
  • Best Music Video Award (Berlin Independent Film Festival) - February 2015
  • Nominated for Audience Choice Award (Solothurner Film Festival) - January 2015
  • Award of Merit - Special Mention (IndieFEST Film Awards Los Angeles) - November 2014
  • TV5Monde Best French Speaking Feature Film Award (Geneva International Film Festival) - November 2014
  • Best Directing Award (LAWEBFEST) - April 2014
  • Outstanding Theme Song Award (LAWEBFEST) - April 2014
  • Best Web Series Award (Los Angeles Comedy Festival) - December 2013
  • Audience Choice Award (International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts) - November 2013
  • Outstanding Ensemble Cast Award (LAWEBFEST) - April 2013
  • Outstanding Producing Award (LAWEBFEST) - April 2013
  • Nominated for Best Female Filmmaker Award (West Chester Film Festival) - April 2012
  • Nominated for Best Swiss Film (Lucerne International Film Festival) - October 2011
  • John J. Theobald Graduate Achievement Award (New York Institute of Technology) - June 2006
  • Swiss Benevolent Scholarship (Swiss Benevolent Society of New York) - June 2004
  • Fulbright Scholarship - June 2004

Her production experience includes

Set work for studio movies , television shows & independent movies:

  • MEN IN BLACK 3
  • PERSON OF INTEREST
  • CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
  • SUITS
  • PORTLANDIA
  • SAVANNAH
  • SILENT HOUSE
  • GENERATION UM…
  • PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND

Producer work for independent movies

  • THE GIRL IN THE YELLOW JUMPER
  • MERCY OF THE JUNGLE

Production Managing of music videos, commercials, reality TV and documentaries.

Studies

  • 2006 MA in Communication and Film from New York Institute of Technology.
  • 2001 MA in International Relations from Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, (IUHEI) Geneva.