June 20, 2008

BEHIND THE SCENES...SCENARIO


We shot Subira in two parts, the first shoot was in April 2007. When i reached Lamu i had no idea of who the cast was going to be. There were no real actors there and the community didn't want to act, so i only got 4 people for the auditions and had to do with those.

We had to improvise constantly to get the shots that we wanted as the actors had no idea what to do and would freeze once i said "action". We shot for a total of 9 days and had to go along with what we could get best out of the actors there.

The second time i went down in August 2007 with a larger crew to shoot act one as i had missed it out on that the first time around. We also shot some remaining scenes which we couldn't do the previous time and eventually, we got all our shots and returned to Nairobi for the edit.

It made it to the Kenya International Film Festival and won the BEST SHORT FILM AWARD, it also got a distribution contract with AFRICALIA . It has been very successful with audiences in Europe.

In May 2008 it won the Golden Impala Award for THE BEST AFRICAN SHORT FILM AWARD, at Amakula, Kampala and was selected to play a the CANNES FILM FESTIVAL.

Based on its ongoing success, we are now developing the script into a feature film and we intend to shot.

1 comment:

SUBIRA, 11, is a cheeky young girl who wants to live by the same rules that apply to her younger brother. said...

That was a nice experience i believe and a good challenge for the Director and the production team

Wish you all the best in the feature film, cant wait to see it.