Kantarama Gahigiri
circusproductions.tv
Director and Producer
New York City, New York
January 2015
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About Kantarama
KANTARAMA GAHIGIRI - Award-wining Director / Writer / Producer
Her first feature film "Tapis Rouge" has been screened and awarded worldwide including TV5Monde Best Feature Film at Geneva International Film Festival (2014) and Best Directing at Chelsea Film Festival (New York) in 2015, followed by a national theatrical release in France, May 2017. She is now developing "Tanzanite", her second feature, a female centric afro-futuristic thriller that takes place in colourful Nairobi.
Kantarama is an alumni of Realness - Screenwriter's Residency (2018) selected after evaluation of more than 130 projects from the African continent.
An alumni of La Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut français, amongst the 10 projects selected worldwide during the 72nd Cannes Film Festival (2019).
And an alumni of Artists in Residency by Africa Centre (2019), one of the 5 artists from Africa to be awarded a residency this year.
Since 2014, she also teaches directing, writing & producing workshops to help younger artists implement their work (in Malaysia, Rwanda, Brazil, Switzerland, Tunisia, Kenya, Tanzania).
In 2004 she was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Swiss Benevolent Scholarship that helped her jumpstart her film career.
As a freelance producer, she has been working on various films, TV and commercials in East Africa, Switzerland and the United States.
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Credits
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Né Pour Mourir (
2017 )
Film (short) Co-Director -
Lost Angel Less by Classik Luvanga (
2017 )
Video by Circus Productions Director / Producer -
Tapis Rouge (
2015 )
Film Co-Director / Co-Producer / Co-Writer -
Pinot In The Grass by Kami Awori (fka CaramelBrown) (
2014 )
Video by Circus Productions Director / Producer -
Me + U (Season 2) (
2013 )
Television by Circus Productions Director / Producer / Co-Writer -
Untitled by Kami Awori (fka CaramelBrown) (
2013 )
Video by Circus Productions Director / Producer -
Me + U (Season 1) (
2012 )
Television by Circus Productions Director / Producer / Co-Writer -
The Elevator (
2011 )
Film (short) by Circus Productions Director / Producer -
Be The Monster (
2011 )
Film Producer -
Veuillez Veiller Sur Vos Reves by John Banzai feat. Les Nubians (
2010 )
Video by Circus Productions Director / Producer -
Leila (
2009 )
Video by Circus Productions Director / Producer -
Check (
2008 )
Film (short) by Circus Productions Director / Producer
Awards
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Best Animated Short Award - Berlin Independent FF
(2017) -
Award of Merit - IndieFEST Film Awards
(2017) -
Fondation Suzanne Huber Award
(2016) -
Festival Award - Festival Effervescence
(2016) -
Nominated for Audience Choice Award - Solothurn FF
(2015) -
Best Music Video - Berlin Independent FF
(2015) -
Outstanding Ensemble Cast Award - Nador FF
(2015) -
Festival Grand prix - Nador FF
(2015) -
Audience Choice Award - Delémont-Hollywood FF
(2015) -
Best Directing Award - Chelsea FF
(2015) -
Outstanding Theme Song Award - LAWEBFEST
(2014) -
Best Directing Award - LAWEBFEST
(2014) -
TV5Monde Best French Speaking Feature Film Award - Geneva Intl FF
(2014) -
Award of Merit - Special Mention - IndieFEST Film Awards
(2014) -
Outstanding Ensemble Cast Award - LAWEBFEST
(2013) -
Outstanding Producing Award - LAWEBFEST
(2013) -
Audience Choice Award - Intl FF of Cinematic Arts
(2013) -
Best Web Series Award - LA Comedy Fest
(2013) -
Nominated for Best Female Filmmaker - West Chester FF
(2012) -
Nominated for Best Swiss Film - Lucerne Intl FF
(2011) -
John J. Theobald Graduate Achievement Award - NYIT
(2006) -
Fulbright Scholarship
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Swiss Benevolent Scholarship
(2004)
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