Kenyan Movies

Kenyan Movies

Film production companies have long recognized Kenya as a popular location for both video and film 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 about 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 from the Happy Valley"

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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 also to Walk With Lions.

Now, Kenyans sick and tired of being the background for high-budget films about white people running 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 lack of 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 is finally taking advantage of cheaper equipment and new distribution ideas.

“Kenyan directors and producers are working hard to make the Kenyan Movie industry bigger and. Hopefully, it is going be very big but what I know is that it is growing. From where we were two years back, I think it is much better now and that we are hoping it is going to be bigger,” says Kenyan actress Sarah Hassah.

Based on her, actors were being given serious attention in Kenya now and they were also getting more movie roles to experience.

Indeed, the future looks bright for that Kenyan movie industry.