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Simale revolves around the lives of
two graduates who have fallen in
love, but cultural differences make
it difficult for them. Scripted by
Mucheru and translated into Borana
by Liban Liban (who plays the role
of Wario in the movie), Simale aims
at promoting cultural tolerance in
the community which continues to
grapple with problems such as lack
of empowerment for the girl child
among others.
“In the movie we featured 42
cast. Out of them, only one
had appeared before a camera.
The others were new, but they
performed prodigiously. In fact,
one very old illiterate man who is
one of the actors, would be read
the lines by the co-producer and
internalise them before acting,”
says Mucheru.
After the Borana movie, the initiative
is in the final stages of actualising
another locally-acted movie that will
be cast in Dholuo. The movie, Piny
Agounda, will be staged in Kisumu.
It loosely translates to ‘what goes
around comes around’.
The initiative has been able to spread
wings to neighbouring Tanzania
where they conducted such training
in 2017 for local filmmakers. The
training lasted for two weeks and
before they left Tanzania, they were
“It was a depiction of unutilised
talent.”
The initiative would hire homes
and other facilities to help
shoot the movie. Coincidentally,
they hired the home of two
of the actors who were sisters
sent away from school for fees
arrears. Through the payment
they got from the initiative and
the rental fees paid, the girls
were able to go back to school.
Mucheru would learn of it after
the girls had returned to school,
when their mother came to
thank him.
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able to shoot two movies, Laiti and
Ndoto Yangu. Later, the Tanzanian
government would send two trainees
to Kenya for further training by Media
Vision. The initiative, in conjunction
with the Tanzanian Film Federation,
is jointly producing a film that will
feature East African actors.
Apart from the local partners, Media
Vision is collaborating with Canon
Japan to offer capacity building
through training of trainers (ToT),
technical capacity building in terms