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Kibera Kid Film 

Posted On : January 11, 2018

Oscar Alochi

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Kibera Kid is an award winning short film set in the Kibera slums in Nairobi,Kenya. It was written, directed and co-produced by Nathan Collett in collaboration with the locals of Kibera.

Kibera Kid is an award winning short film set in the Kibera slums in Nairobi,Kenya. It was written, directed and co-produced by Nathan Collett in collaboration with the locals of Kibera. [taq_review] This twelve-minute film featured Kibera actors in the principal roles. It has played at film festivals worldwide including the Berlin Film Festival and it won a Student EMMY from Hollywood. It has been profiled by the BBC,Reuter citation needed and Al Jazeera English. In April 2009, a feature film follow up to Kibera Kid was shot. The full length film focuses on tribal conflict and the possibility of reconciliation. The film had a larger effect as it led to the formation of Hot Sun Foundation which trains the youth of the slums to make their own films. Read more  no next  page Page 2 Kibera Kid is the story of Otieno, a 12-year-old orphan from Kibera living with a gang of thieves who must make a choice between gang life and redemption. The story is fiction but the circumstances and reality depicted are not. Crime and poverty are common in Kibera, yet there are many who will stand for a better life no matter how bad things may seem. The film display the real day to day struggle in most urban slum and what young kenyan under go to survive,Korogocho,Mathare,Mukuru and many other slums Kibera Kids Has Won Several International Awards Including 2006 Hamptons International Film Festival winner of Best Student Film 2006 Kenya International Film Festival winner of Best short film 2006 Angelus Film Festival winner of Director's Choice 2007 Student Emmys winner of Best Children's program Directed by  Nathan Collett Screenplay by  Nathan Collett Cinematography  Collin Brink Director  Nathan Collett Music director  Jermaine Stegall​​​​​​​ Produced by  Hot Sun Films Music by  Jermaine Stegall Initial release  August 2006 Screenplay  Nathan Collett Copy Right Alchetron Content Courtesy Of Digital Team 

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This twelve-minute film featured Kibera actors in the principal roles. It has played at film festivals worldwide including the Berlin Film Festival and it won a Student EMMY from Hollywood. It has been profiled by the BBC,Reuter citation needed and Al Jazeera English. In April 2009, a feature film follow up to Kibera Kid was shot. The full length film focuses on tribal conflict and the possibility of reconciliation. The film had a larger effect as it led to the formation of Hot Sun Foundation which trains the youth of the slums to make their own films.

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