Wow 🏆🏆 Merci Festival du Cinéma Africain de Khouribga ♥️♥️ 2nd time in Morocco for the month and yesterday night The Mercy Of The Jungle won Best Scenario and Best Supporting Actor!!! Merry Christmas to all the cast & crew!!! ✨ – Kantarama
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Shukran Marrakech! It’s been a dream-like invitation to represent my project at Les Ateliers De L’Atlas. Thank you universe, thank you everyone for this incredible opportunity ✨ TANZANITE, the journey is on. 🙏🏽🎬♥️ ‘Kilometers 60,’ ‘Gunpowder,’ ‘Fish’ Win at Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops – Kantarama
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Hello Tunis, thank you for having us at the oldest film festival of the continent for the African Premiere of Mercy of The Jungle, by Joël Karekezi. Les Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage are taking place since 1966, and the public is here to attest that love of cinema is real in Tunisia. – Kantarama
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And so it begins… shooting 2 scenes as proof of concept for upcoming feature film: THE GIRL IN THE YELLOW JUMPER a thriller based in Uganda, directed by my talented friend Loukman Ali, and produced by Kantarama Gahigiri It is going to be a killer!!! Mark my words and follow us here for more news soon. STAY TUNED. – Kantarama
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It has been an honour and a pleasure being part of Realness Residency this summer of 2018 with my project TANZANITE. 6 weeks of intense work, challenging my project and myself for the best, at the paradise location of Nirox right next to the Cradle of Humankind, north of Johannesburg, where I could hear lions roar every night… and then 7 challenging weeks of work from Kigali. Adding story, structure, characters, layers, details, meaning. My first time in a screenwriting residency, my first time working with a team of people that support me and my project, who were able to create this bubble, where I could feel safe but also push to the limits. For the first time ever (!) could I let go of anything logistic and concentrate on the artistic craft itself. The creative. Needless to say that it felt amazing and humbling. I am so grateful for the support and progress made. For the network created, and the many other opportunities that it has already brought and will in the future. And last but not least, many thanks to my friend and co-writer Kivu Ruhorahoza. You are so talented, it is a pleasure to be able to […]
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It’s OFFICIAL and I can finally talk about this amazing opportunity!!! Thank you so so much Kivu Ruhorahoza for going on a wild ride with me. Thank you Elias Ribeiro, Cait Pansegrouw & all the readers for REALNESS – A Screenwriter’s Residency it’s been 3 years that I was dreaming of participating and now it is finally happening. I can’t wait. Urucu Media x Realness – An African Screenwriter’s Residency x Festival de Cannes – Cannes Film Festival OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: REALNESS SELECTION – 3RD EDITION After an extensive evaluation of more than 130 projects from 24 countries, it is our greatest pleasure to introduce you to the Realness Residents of 2018; Kantarama Gahigiri – Rwanda (Project: Tanzanite) Matthys Boshoff – South Africa (Project: Vlees Van My Vlees) Ng’endo Mukii – Kenya (Project: The Goat Sunday) Reem Morsi – Egypt (Project: Bootleg) Mohammed Siam – Egypt (Project: Blood and Honey) PRESS: Realness Screenwriter’s Residency 2018 participants announced at Cannes Film Festival https://www.screendaily.com/news/five-projects-selected-for-2018-african-screenwriting-residency-realness/5129672.article – Kantarama
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THANK YOU 2018 !!! So grateful !!! Still in February and already : – Traveled to 5 cities (Paris, Rotterdam, Kigali, Berlin, Geneva)… – Watched A LOT of films, classics and new at International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR and Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival !!! (*including classics like: Lumumba Retour au Congo by Raoul Peck, Sankofa by Haile Gerima, La Noire de… by Ousmane Sembène, Harvest 3000 years by Haile Gerima) (*but also: SUPA MODO, Eldorado, MAKI’LA – Film, Das Kongo Tribunal, Birds Are Singing in Kigali, Une Saison En France, Kinshasa Makambo, Azougue Nazaré, It Must Make Peace, I Am Not A witch, Djon Africa, Cook Off, Les Deux Visages D’Une Femme Bamileke, Viaje A Los Pueblos Fumigados, Our Madness, High Fantasy, Vivre Riche) (*and : Respeto, Laissez bronzer les cadavres, The Real Estate, 7 Days In Entebbe, MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A., Yocho (Foreboding), Khook) – Got to celebrate with my friend for his award-winning short film: IMFURA-short Film by Karemangingo Ishimwe !!! 1st Rwandan film at Berlinale YAY !!! (*and other inspiring shorts : Tuko Macho by Jim Chuchu, Mugabo by Amelia Um, La Mazda Jaune Et Sa Sainteté by Sandra Heremans, Hairat by Jessica Beshir, Mahogany Too by Akosua Adoma Owusu) – Participated in Haïlé Gerima‘s EYE-OPENING Workshop about Storytelling Structure / Reclaiming our Narrative & Decolonizing our Minds !!! – […]
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Great STORYTELLING IN AFRICA: FUTURE TRENDS panel discussion at Africa Tech Summit Kigali !!! I am truly grateful for the experience: having been invited to design and moderate this discussion with my great panelists, fellow filmmakers @regisheja @cynthiabutare @sharangabombabazi & inanga innovator @munyakazideo was a challenge, but the outcome felt so rewarding !!! We will come back next year with a bigger, more crazy, more immersive concept… see you soon !!! Shout out to @akomanet for inviting me to share my vision !!! ✨ – Kantarama
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