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Kenyan filmmaker says she’s a natural storyteller
Filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu (right) directs an actress during the shooting of her film. Ms Kahiu mostly scripts and directs her own films although just recently she was a lead scriptwriter for the new television series ‘State House’. Photo/FILE
Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu has won top awards at the annual Cannes Film Festival — which opens next month on the French Riveria— for Pumzi, her 24-minute film that critics has called science fiction.
Yet Ms Kahiu never intended to write a sci-fi story. “My motivation was mainly my outrage over the way human beings have mistreated their environment,” said the UCLA-trained filmmaker while speaking to fellow Kenyan filmmakers at PAWA254, a hub for visual creatives, journalists and organisers, last Thursday.
