I can't remember the last time I was this proud of our industry.
TV/FILM/THEATRE.
We are no longer afraid. Wahome Mutahi (Whispers), Ngungi Wa Thiong'o and so many other performers paved the way for this kind of art way before it was legal. I'm sure they too are proud of our
Hae please...meet me. I am a working actor please.
In April I'll be on stage performing "The sex lives of African women".
May niko hapo tena na "I will marry when I want/Ngaahika ndeeda".
Sheeesh....☺️☺️☺️🥰🥰🥰🥰
Who I'm I again??? ☺️☺️☺️☺️
Fam.... I'm doing my third animation. Third! I love this new world 😊😊😊. I even voiced for my favourite animation, yours too actually 😎! Wacha new season ije. Hamtalala 🤣I will yell at the top of my voice. Next? Family Guy perhaps? 😎
They say those who can't do teach....
I teach because I can😎.
Introducing....a showreel cut by my G Ouda!
To be honest, I'm still to get a reel that makes me absolutely happy because it's supposed to be under 3 mins of your greatest performances. But I KILL it every darn time!
Top of the morning folks! I'm so darn excited that this project is out. Nimekua nikitembea hii Kenya na kiburi ndio nivutie role na imefika finally. Si mlisema leads lazima wakue na maringo kidogo and a dash of unprofessionalism?
This has been the most exhilarating 72 hours I've had. And the hardest 72 hours too. We wrote, directed and are about to perform scenes inspired by John Kiriamiti's My Life in Crime; One of the most notorious gangsters in Kenya from the 60's.
"When you travel down the same road everyday it's easy to often wonder about the road not taken. I guess I'm lucky, I picked a good road early so I never have to wonder."
Anonymous.
May you have the kind of week you want ❤️
Good morning !
This is going to be a good day😊, don't you think?
Now,
@NickNdeda
and I must look all sorts of crazy picking up a project as sensitive and as heavy as this. Especially at this particular point in time in our country. That's because maybe we ARE crazy💁😅.
We need to stop assuming that because people kiss then actors can kiss in a scene and it'll turn out "good". Sex scenes NEED to be given more attention jamani. Direct your actors. Tell them how and where to put the lips, dictate the tempo...make it a closed set. Film/TV needs
Good morning!
So
@nickndeda
wrote a film that I haven't stopped thinking about. 9 or so months later of pre-production, here we are.
It's a beautiful film that highlights the culpability of the media when it comes to post election violence.
WE WON!!! 😱
48hr Film Project Nairobi.
We won 8 awards y'all!! Including Best Film overall, Judges choice award AND Audience choice award!!
#48HFPNairobi
Listen, I'm the queen of shorts for a reason.😉
#TeamVortex
well won!❤
Good morning!
Just passing by real quick to celebrate yet another win😍😍.
I had so much fun voicing the Hormone monstress Nichi AND working with
@nyokafimacharia
who voiced Sharon! We had a whole scene to ourselves mahhnn!!!
My screen directorial debut was for
@48HFPNairobi
.
Baptism by fire I call it.
Also
@shyolympia
, every new director needs an AD like you. Asante sana. Hi
@carocoach1
, I did it! 😎😎😎.
Guys! We are global, AMKENI!
I was featured in the latest season of
@bigmouth
on
@netflix
alongside my darling
@GithinjiNice
and
@Lupita_Nyongo
played my grandmother in the series! Ngai! 😭
Season 7, Episode 6 is where it’s at!
Seems like it’s my year of animations!
Good morning 😁😁.
So, we've been winning 💃💃🕺🕺🕺
#thread
Last week, our film
#midnightvan
won Best Short Fiction in the 3rd edition of Under Our Skin Kenya Film Festival. MIDNIGHT VAN was a village effort.
#thread
This is a 17/16 year old Nice. With her deshki Karigo.
Nice didn't know that come July of 2022, she would produce her first play with
@shortsfromafrica
and
@nyokabi_macharia
, produce her first film as a solo project and premier on
#Netlix
global.
Heh... this is heaven. Mine had bedsheets in place of curtains, curtain BOX - not rod, cement floor and blue walls. Ile blue/green ya kanjo. Fun fact, Kirina and I had just spent 2M on a reality show. Back then hamkuwa mnajua hizo ni nini 🤣 until brokensilenze ikakam thru.
I directed my very first Short Film; “If Phones Could Talk” starring one of Kenya’s finest talents
@manassehknyagah
under
@shortsffrica
Our short film has been nominated alongside 12 other films for the People’s Choice Prize for the Smartphone Film Competition 2022
@lewis_ngunyi
No one's interested in good content here as far as "who buys it" is concerned. Writers have been turned into translators. Almost all the shows airing are adaptations. We also like to assume Kenya is Nairobi. How do we write,shoot & produce for the country instead of the cities?
It's quite a task for actors to take the place of another because, if nothing else, they're walking into a ready made family they weren't initially a part of. The mind battles between the audience comparison with the original, the need to find yourself in the role as
It's an election year and we know how misinformation can cause tragic events. Don't you think the media is just as culpable as politicians are when it comes to
#PEV
?
#thread
So this past week I was part of a very interesting AI project. Yes, sensitive topic and all.
When I got the script I immediately knew something was off but couldn't put my finger on it. The title had "AI" in it but I thought this was within the theme.
When I wake up, sit up on the bed, grab my laptop (& itinerary 😎) = a full working day. However, when I wake up and go to the living room with laptop and itinerary = YouTube conspiracy theories/work/twitter/clockapp.
Say yes to the bed office.
The more pieces I see at these festivals the more I'm inclined to the idea of scrapping English from our languages. Ukikijua, sawa, lakini kutojua haifai kumaanisha you're unlearned or whatever. The ease at which we speak and comprehend/deliver text in a language we understand
It's always a good morning nowadays..
I like it here😊.
This...friends...is the official legal mind that has just joined the
#MidnightVan
team. African intellectual property, entertainment, media and fashion law expert ...
@LizLenjo_Kags
!! 🤗🤗🤗
Last week we had a great conversation with a number of theatre stakeholders on how to export our art. It's not lost to us the number of practitioners from other countries that have been visiting Kenya to share their work/methods. What then would it take for us to do the same?
This gentleman behind me at Quickmart's cashier this evening... Wuehhhh😌😌.
So, I'm going about my business and as I get to the cashier, I inhale, expecting that bland old thing called oxygen to fill my lungs. Instead, a cologne crawled up my nose and went straight to the hair
@Ngartia
Finding out that words mean nothing. WE give meaning to words through how we choose to interpret them. So whether I receive an insult or a loving word doesn't matter. It's up to me to decide how to feel.
Good morning 🌄🌄🌄
We're almost at the tail end of
#MidnightVan
pre-production and I must say, I didn't think so up until last evening.
As we gear up to get into production I need to thank these brothers who have held my hand through this.
Good morning!45 years since it was shut down by the government in Kamirithu, NGAAHIKA NDEENDA/ I WILL MARRY WHEN I WANT is finally coming home to LIMURU at ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC CHURCH from 29th-31st JULY 2022 in its first production in Limuru since 1977.
"When floods come, fish eat ants and when floods recede, ants eat fish. Only time matters.
For making soap, oil is required. But to clean oil, soap is required. This is the irony of life.
No one is self sufficient. Everybody needs somebody at some point in time."
I love
#secondfamily
lakini, they need to 1st, dress that set! The mansion looks so empty AND in retrospect cheap. That master bedroom brought me to tears! 2nd, stop with the Tahidi/Mother in law reaction shots please 😔.
Shorts From Africa is back with a bang!!
Staging our very first in person production;
HOW TO HAVE AN AFFAIR; A CHEATER'S GUIDE.
The play is a witty take on an extra marital affair. Kendi is married to dependable David, has two children and works in an employment agency. When
I come with excruciatingly bad news ..... Somehow our email address isn't going through. Thank you to everyone who reached out to point out the issue. That said, I implore you to kindly re-direct your emails to creativeskinetic
@gmail
.com
I
#thread
Graveyard Queens could not have been what it is without our partners!
@igabantustudios
thank you for a wonderful and viby rehearsal space.
#multan
thank you for recording and editing our show! Archiving is so important to us and you helped us get that!
*Thread*
The convo is about actors' royalties, basically a tariff has to gazetted by the govt then given to businesses who are, by law, mandated to pay for use of ALL Audio Visual and Sound Recording works...
... work done.
Royalties consist of a periodic payment, usually a percent of the revenues made on the use or sale of a copyrighted work of art, like a song, play or novel. For instance, it's common for authors to earn royalties on books they write etc.
I know I have a bunch of things to do lakini my spirit ain't innit. So I'll keep taking this break.. whatever it's from because hata mimi sijui. In the meantime...a fly on the wall is what I'll be.
Last night we hosted some of the most incredible minds in this city at the
@shortsffrica
#graveyardqueenspreview
at
@iHub
🇰🇪. A conversation after the show revealed so much about ageism in society. Within and without our borders.
Coach started as a stage manager went on to be an actor and is now both a stage and screen director. She has been the inspiration and teacher as I to direct and now she can be yours too😎😎.
I thoroughly enjoyed Disconnect 2. Pretty shots. Pretty people. Pretty clothes. Pretty locations. The storyline didn't bother me because I was busy enjoying the situations. Honestly, I have come across Hollywood films that I couldn't even be bothered to watch after the 2nd minute
Isn't it a good morning to introduce to you the geniuses behind our show👑🎭. The ones steering this ship,🚢 hawa sasa ndio wako mboka💪🏾. Directors wenu wanabamba hivi ama tuachane na nyinyi?👀😹
#GraveyardQueens
What happens with music, the musician and producer share rights which make it easier to share royalties where as when it comes to Audio Visual rights, (film/Tv) the producers absolutely refuse to share the rights with the actor, on the premise that the producer pays the actor for
#RHONairobi
! Thank you for giving us messy gold! I love it. Can we just say it's Minne's show already? Oh and the lady from Posh, I love that she's got that Kenyanese English going on. Alafu Indian lady, Sonia is it? Her personality, BRF, shoe collection = 🤌.
Here is a plan.....tell me how you feel about me, how much joy or pain I brought to your life, how odd or uncomfortable or fun our first meet was....tell me now. When I'm here. Don't wait till I'm dead. If you're didn't say it while I lived don't do it when I leave.
Meet TABBY aka miss fabulous 😍😍. This gorgeous and talented woman was my on-screen mom on
@rafikimovie
where we made quite the mean duo. A lover of life, psychologist, thespian and the most one of the most lovable persons I've met.
#graveyardqueens
@niniwacera
speech about actors brought me to tears & not bcz I didn't know these things/haven't experienced most of them, but bcz it was said back to me. I saw us from outside.
#SOTFI2023