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Hawa Essuman (born 1980) is a film director based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her 2017 feature-length documentary Silas, co-directed with Anjali Neyar, tells the story of Liberian environmental activist Silas Siakor 's fight to preserve the country's rainforests from commercial logging. The film won multiple awards, including the Amnesty International ...
Hawa Essuman (née en 1980) est une réalisatrice basée à Nairobi, au Kenya.Son long métrage documentaire de 2017, "Silas", co-réalisé avec Anjali Nayar, raconte le combat du militant écologiste libérien Silas Siakor pour protéger les forêts tropicales de son pays contre l'exploitation forestière commerciale.
Soul Boy [1] is a 2010 Kenyan drama film, written by Billy Kahora and directed by Hawa Essuman. It developed under the mentorship of German director and producer Tom Tykwer in Kibera, one of the largest slums in the African continent, in the middle of Nairobi, Kenya. The film has received five nominations at the 2011 Africa Movie Academy Awards ...
Film-maker Hawa Essuman on: how Soul Boy came to be made; the story of the film and the use of African traditional beliefs in the storyline; Essuman's own vi...
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Writer / Director of award winning feature & documentary films · Hawa is a multi award winning Director who is at the forefront of film making in Africa. Her most recent film, Silas - a feature length documentary co-directed with Anjali Nayar - tells the story of environmental campaigners defending Liberia's rain forests. It has won awards in the US, Europe and Africa. Previously ...
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Kenya. Hawa Essuman performed in and worked on several theatre plays and a couple of films before she made her way into the world of production and then, eventually behind the camera. Working on TV commercials and documentaries provided her production experience before working as part of the directing team on a local TV drama series, Makutano ...
Reporter Sarah interviews Soul Boy's co-director, Hawa Essuman. Set in Nairobi, Kenya, when 14 year-old Abila's father becomes ill and delirious, Abila is shocked and confused but wants to help his father and goes in search of a suitable cure.
