{"id":17178,"date":"2022-10-06T19:21:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=17178"},"modified":"2022-10-06T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:23:08","slug":"kenyan-film-safari-to-have-world-premiere-at-cinekid-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/10\/06\/kenyan-film-safari-to-have-world-premiere-at-cinekid-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Film, Safari to have World Premiere at Cinekid Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kenyan film Safari,<\/em><\/strong> produced by Rocque Pictures Ltd, directed by Kenyan Bill Afwani, and distributed by Rushlake Media, will have its world-premiere at The Cinekid Festival in the Netherlands on 17 October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rushlake Media acquired the film for international sales prior to the festival selection and will represent the film globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rushlake Media, with offices in Cologne, Germany and Nairobi, Kenya is a multi-platform network with a strong presence in the African market. Safari <\/em><\/strong>is the latest film aimed at young audiences , following on from the company\u2019s global success with the films Supa Modo <\/em>and Liyana<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The selection of the film to premiere at the world\u2019s largest children\u2019s media festival, Cinekid Festival, is testament to the quality of this touching and poignant story that centres around Safari and his quest to experience Kenya. Safari, a wheelchair-bound boy is taken on an adventure by the cheeky girl next door Kiki. Together, they try to see as many wild animals in real life as possible \u2013 and above all elephant Jumbo. But they come across evil poachers who make money hunting animals. The tale of Safari and his friend Kiki\u2019s adventure touches on many elements of life in rural Kenya today, from living with disabilities to poaching yet still manages to convey the playfulness of traditional children\u2019s adventure stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director Bill Afwani explains the inspiration for the film, \u201cIn my childhood, heart-warming movies of adventurous kids having fun at the same time escaping perilous grounds always transported me to a visceral fantasy world that I wished I could physically experience. Movies like Home Alone<\/em>, Free Willy,<\/em> and Africa United<\/em> that showed fun-loving children in dangerous situations exhibiting heroic characteristics kept kids glued. Safari is the movie I wish to have watched when young.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Safari,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 is just another example of exemplary Kenyan filmmaking from an exciting team of filmmakers headed by director Bill Afwani, a film graduate from Kenyatta University who started his career directing the award-winning short film Sticking Ribbons for which he won Best East African Talent at the 2014 Zanzibar International film festival.\u00a0 Safari <\/em><\/strong>is his feature length film directorial debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruguru Phoebe, the film\u2019s Producer, has twice been nominated as Young Achiever of the Year by African Women in Europe, and recognized winner of the same title by Women for Africa, 2016. Her first short film Saidia (2014), won Best Young Filmmaker at the Modern-Day Slavery Competition in London. Ruguru is the only Kenyan filmmaker to win best Film in Africa, at the AMVCA. Currently Ruguru works for Africa\u2019s biggest broadcaster DSTV as a content executive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film\u2019s writer and director, Njue Kevin has directed several award-winning short films, before making his feature film debut, 18 Hours which was nominated at the Africa Movie Academy Awards for Best First Feature Film by a Director. Njue was also featured on the Top 40 under 40 list by Business Daily Africa and most notably the FORBES 30 under 30 (Creatives in Africa) 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film was partially funded by the Kenya Film Commission, a state corporation under the Ministry of ICT, Innovation and Youth Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kenyan film Safari, produced by Rocque Pictures Ltd, directed by Kenyan Bill Afwani, and distributed by Rushlake Media, will have its world-premiere at The Cinekid Festival in the Netherlands on 17 October 2022. Rushlake Media acquired the film for international sales prior to the festival selection and will represent the film globally. Rushlake Media,… Continue reading Kenyan Film, Safari to have World Premiere at Cinekid Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festival","category-film","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}