Judy Kibinge

SOAS Africa Conference 2017 - Judy Kibinge

Judy Kibinge (born in 1967) is a Kenyan filmmaker, writer and producer. Her films are known as depicting social taboos, violence in developing countries, and romantic comedy.

Quotes

Kenyan filmmaker invited to join ranks of Oscar voters

in her interview by Melissa Mahtani, CNN, "Kenyan filmmaker invited to join ranks of Oscar voters" (October 6, 2017)

• Younger Africans and Kenyans are this eclectic mix of a new confidence about being African mixed with not feeling like you have to completely reject things of the West. Really realizing, hey we’re on the continent, we’re here to stay and we can create things we can relate to.
• A few years ago after making a few different feature films of my own, I really began to notice, to really notice how difficult it was to raise funding, how difficult it was to find a sense of community amongst filmmakers back home in Kenya. By founding and starting Docubox I was able, with my colleagues, to raise funding first of all, make a call and in quite a curated process, select a number of independent documentary filmmakers who over the past four years have been doing a lot of grueling work making these incredible films that are going to be seen come the beginning of the end of this year.
• Often many filmmakers will want to tackle something that has to do with corruption. Many want to touch upon things that are happening to them, issues of drug taking and so on. Others want to express themselves as musicians and to accept themselves as individuals.
• Take notice of the new wave of filmmaking coming out of the continent and start writing stories.
• It’s one of the most remarkable times to be African.