African Women in Cinema Blog: Updates | Actualités - 09 June | juin 2017 - News on the Internet | Les infos autour de l’Internet

African Women in Cinema Blog

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09 – June | juin – 2017

News around the Internet | Les infos autour de l’Internet 

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Michelle Mboya

Jihan El-Tahri

Rungano Nyoni

Iman Kamel

Michelle Mboya

Telling Untold Stories. 5 June 2017 by Natalie Makovora. Directed by Women.

Jihan El-Tahri

« Réfléchir de nouveau à notre identité collective africaine ».  2 juin 2017. Le grenier de Kabili.

Rungano Nyoni 

The Film About Feminism and Witchcraft That You Need to See. Douglas Greenwood. Another Mag.

Iman Kamel

Egyptian director Iman Kamel wins Iconic Women Award. May 2017. Ahram Online. 

Michelle Mboya’s Seed & Spark crowdfunding for her film “The Camel’s Back”, produced by Wangechi Ngugi

Michelle Mboya’s Seed & Spark crowdfunding for her film “The Camel’s Back”, produced by Wangechi Ngugi

Source: Seed & Spark Website

The Camel’s Back is a fantasy that takes place in locations that the world has never before seen on film. It tells the story of a young, black, African girl who feels unheard - this representation is so important in film and for the world to see and acknowledge.

The Writer and Director:

Michelle Mboya is a Yale Senior from Kenya. She studies Economics and Film Studies and is creating her first 25-minute short The Camel's Back. She's previously worked on sets of Hollywood feature films, assistant directed the short film The Shoe Room (Julian Taffa) and created the limited mini webseries Girls In The Bathroom.

The Producer:

Wangechi Ngugi is a Kenyan-born, Nairobi-based filmmaker and producer. She has produced the award winning films Stories of Our Lives, the Fashion Film To Catch A Dream and the two part Sci-Fi short Monsoons Over the Moon.

Pitch for the The Camel's Back

Visit The Camel's Back Seed&Spark webpage for details about the fundraising efforts and to make a contribution.