Wanuri Kahiu

<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Century Gothic&quot;">In 2008, Wanuri completed her first feature film <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">From A Whisper</i></b> based on the real life events surrounding the August 7, twin bombings of US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The film recently won awards at the Africa Movie Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Picture, the Golden Dhow award for Best East African Picture at Zanzibar International Film Festival and Best Film at Kalasha, Kenya Film and TV awards. Shortly after she completed a documentary about the life of Nobel peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai entitled <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">For Our Land (2009)</i></b> for M-Net ‘Great Africans’ Series. She has recently completed a short Science Fiction Film <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Pumzi (2009)</b> that was partially funded by Focus Features (part of NBC universal), Goethe Institut and Changa Moto Fund in Kenya. Pumzi recently won Best Short at Cannes Independent Film Festival, May 2010 and took Silver at Carthage Film Festival Tunisia, October 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->

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