Wanuri Kahiu is a Kenyan film director. She has received several awards and nominations for the films which she directed, including the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Picture at the African Movie Academy Awards

5th African Movie Academy Awards

The 5th African Movie Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 4, 2009 at the Gloryland Cultural Center in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, to honor the best African films of 2008. It was broadcast live on Nigerian national television. African Movie Academy Award winner Kate Henshaw-Nuttal and...

 in 2009.

Career

Kahiu was born in Nairobi

Nairobi

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, Kenya

Kenya

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. After graduating from the University of Warwick

University of Warwick

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 in 2001 with a BSc degree

Bachelor of Science

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 in Management Science, she enrolled for a Master's Degree at the 'Masters of Fine Arts' programme in directing at the School of Film and Television at the University of California

University of California

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, Los Angeles

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.

Her movie From a Whisper

From a Whisper

From a Whisper is a Kenyan drama film written and directed by African Movie Academy Award winner Wanuri Kahiu. The film received 12 nominations and won 5 awards at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2009, including Best Picture, Best Original Soundtrack, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and...

received a total of twelve nominations and earned five awards at the 5th African Movie Academy Awards

5th African Movie Academy Awards

The 5th African Movie Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 4, 2009 at the Gloryland Cultural Center in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, to honor the best African films of 2008. It was broadcast live on Nigerian national television. African Movie Academy Award winner Kate Henshaw-Nuttal and...

 in 2009.

Filmography

• Director
  • 2009: Pumzi
    Pumzi
    -External links:* at Pumzithefilm.com* at SCI-CULTURA...
    
    
  • 2009: From a Whisper
    From a Whisper
    From a Whisper is a Kenyan drama film written and directed by African Movie Academy Award winner Wanuri Kahiu. The film received 12 nominations and won 5 awards at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2009, including Best Picture, Best Original Soundtrack, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and...
    
    
• Writer
  • 2009: Pumzi
  • 2009: From a Whisper (screenplay)
• Producer
  • 2005: Still Life

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