Directed by Nathan Collett Screenplay by Nathan Collett Cinematography Collin Brink Director Nathan Collett Music director Jermaine Stegall | Produced by Hot Sun Films Music by Jermaine Stegall Initial release August 2006 Screenplay Nathan Collett | |
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Starring Ignatius Juma, Geoffrey Twanga, Godfrey Ojiambo, Anthony Shikon’Golo Cast Ignatius Juma, Godfrey Ojiambo, Godfrey Twanga Producers Nathan Collett, Leslie Khadondi Similar Togetherness Supreme, On the Bowery, The Haunting of Helen Wa, The House of Tomorrow, Captain Mikula - the Kid | ||
kibera kid
Kibera Kid is an award winning short film set in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya. It was written, directed and co-produced by Nathan Collett in collaboration with the locals of Kibera.
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This twelve-minute film featured Kibera actors in the principal roles. It has played at film festivals worldwide including the Berlin Film Festival and it won a Student EMMY from Hollywood. It has been profiled by the BBC, Reuters and Al Jazeera English. In April 2009, a feature film follow up to Kibera Kid was shot. The full length film focuses on tribal conflict and the possibility of reconciliation. The film had a larger effect as it led to the formation of Hot Sun Foundation which trains the youth of the slums to make their own films.
Award winning kibera kid
Plot
Kibera Kid is the story of Otieno, a 12-year-old orphan from Kibera living with a gang of thieves who must make a choice between gang life and redemption. The story is fiction but the circumstances and reality depicted are not. Crime and poverty are common in Kibera, yet there are many who will stand for a better life no matter how bad things may seem.