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Background
Following the success of feature film Soul Boy, One Fine Day Films and Kenyan-based production company Ginger Ink partnered with DW Akademie to design a two-module training initiative: One Fine Day Film Workshops. The first module, a classroom-like “mini film school”, deepens and expands the skill set and cinematic language of already practicing African filmmakers. It widens cinematic perspectives, exposure and vocabulary. Treasuring African Stories and wanting to enable talented filmmakers from the continent to reach a larger number of viewers is what One Fine Day Films are working for. In 2012, the second feature film to come out of the One Fine Day Film Workshops, Nairobi Half Life by Tosh Gitonga, was the first ever Kenyan entry to the Oscars. Mbithi Masya from Kenya, former student of the class of 2010, was selected to co-write and direct the next movie – soon KATI KATI was born. Andrew Mungai, also a graduate of the One Fine Day Film Workshopswas chosen as the cinematographer and many more crew members could be recruited out of the many trained departments. In cooperation with the Goehde Foundation, One Fine Day Films developed a Film Music Workshop out of which the music for KATI KATI was composed. The Kenyan composers where then invited to Cologne to rehearse the music together with the Jungle Orchester NRW.

Awards and accolades
At the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, Kati Kati won the Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) for the Discovery programme.kati kati led the nomination slate for the 2017 kalasha awards with a total of 13 nominations,among them best actor and best actress in a movie.