Kenyan Movies
 | Film production companies have long recognized Kenya being a popular destination for both film and video production. In the film "To Walk with Lions" (the biopic of famed conservationist George Adamson) Kenya is readily accessible exotic wildlife, captivating landscapes and diverse traditional cultures brings out the perfect cinematic setting. Other films manufactured in the country include the Academy Award winning "Out of Africa", a real-life murder mystery "White Mischief of the Happy Valley".
Kenyan Movies Over 80 international films have been hosted in Kenya, the major ones include From Africa, King Solomon's Mines, Born Free, Rise and Fall of Idi Amin, Mugambo, The Wilby Conspiracy, Master from the Game, The Colour Purple (second unit), Kitchen Toto, Cry Freedom (second unit), White Mischief, The life span of Hemmingway, Besieged, Forbidden Territory, Constant Gardener, White Maasai, Congo (second unit), I Dreamed of Africa (second unit) and To Walk With Lions. Now, Kenyans sick and tired of being the background for high-budget films about white people playing around an African playground are telling their very own stories. The Kenyan movie industry is thriving! Elijah Kahara of the Kenya Film Commission says Kenya's movie industry does not have a lot of money, but insufficient cash doesn't equal insufficient creativity. His commission issued 168 licenses for filming this past year. Evelyn Kahungu, who has directed movies in Kenya for seven years, says now it's time for Kenya to join the show. Kahungu says the industry is finally benefiting from cheaper equipment and new distribution ideas. “Kenyan directors and producers will work hard to make the Kenyan Movie industry bigger and better. Hopefully, it is going be huge but what I know is that it is growing. Where we were two years back, It is much better now and we are hoping it is going to be bigger,” says Kenyan actress Sarah Hassah. Based on her, actors were being taken seriously in Kenya now and they were also getting good movie roles to play. Indeed, the future looks bright for that Kenyan movie industry. Kenyan Movies |
