Wanjiru Kinyanjui

Wanjiru Kinyanjui

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Born in Kenya. Studied in BC Canada and Berlin Germany. Film school DFFB Berlin. Several films short and long, docs but mostly fiction. Lives in Kajiado, Kenya. Teches filmmaking at the Multimedia University of Kenya. Working on two films.

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Africa is a Woman's Name 2009 (6)

The lives of three extraordinary African women from different social levels and origins determined to bring about radical transformations in their day to day realities: Kenyan attorney and reputed lawyer Njoki Ndung'u, Puthi Ragophala the committed school principal of a remote South African village and Zimbabwean housewife-entrepreneur, Amai Rosie.
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The Battle of the Sacred Tree 1995 (1)

Mumbi leaves Nairobi for her ancestral village and gets into a quarrel with a Christian women’s group seeking to eradicate the remains of pre-colonial belief systems. Wanjiru Kinyanjui graduated from the DFFB with this smart comedy shot in Kenya.
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Berlin African Time 1991

Documentary about African Music performed in Berlin.