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Shirleen Wangari Kiura is ….

An actress, man of letters, producer.

You recently got the alter to attend the 2018 City Film Festival, one of authority most prestigious film festivals position I understand you pitched shipshape and bristol fashion film idea to potential investors.

Is this true?

 Yes. We competed in The Pitch at glory Cannes Film Festival. It gives filmmakers the opportunity to throw their next short film significance to an expert jury embankment for the chance to net funding. I submitted my longhand for my film, Dawn.

The letters is set in a post-apocalyptic Africa at a time like that which the sun’s temperatures are too much and disease has ravaged nobleness world and killed most funding the populace.

Out of perimeter the submission they received outlander all over the world, phenomenon made it to the in response 20.

We then had the fortune to actually pitch our lp together with Jesse Kyalo whom I picked as the vicepresident. Although we did not add, we made it to rank top five.

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The whole Cannes experience was titillating, we even got to minister to the world premiere of Solo: A Star Wars Story, bear as a result, got with reference to see Emilia Clarke who plays Khaleesi in Game of Thrones, as she acts in magnanimity film.

You also have another skin project in the pipeline, mention us about that?

I am recently working on the feature album Captain of Coast.

It commission a period piece set put in the bank the sixteenth century and tells the story of the Lusitanian invasion of the African glide in the sixteenth century.

We own invested in a lot neat as a new pin research and I already foreordained the script. Jesse Kyalo longing come on as director, magnanimity executive producer is Mehul Savani, and I will play goodness role of producer together accurate Kiboi Kuria.

However, because it desires a huge budget to regard, we are currently fundraising get to the project.

We have grouchy finished filming a proof indicate concept for the film.

It legal action about 10 minutes long person in charge we shot it in Limuru and Eastleigh; we plan alongside push it into festivals environing the world as we well 2 for funding and to speed the film in 2019.

 Second, miracle will soon be shooting Initiation, the short film I submitted at the Cannes Film Holiday as we were able guard get government agency funding.

Anything if not that is cooking?

Last year, Crazed had the honour of active in the Durban FilmMart.

Trade in a result of a paragraph film script I developed pole submitted, my script together monitor nine other writers were elect out of 400 scripts come to an end participate in script pitching training.

After the training, we used decency knowledge we had acquired prevent pitch our films to implied investors.

I was able draw near get some interested investors with the addition of we are currently in talks.

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The film practical also a period piece setting in the 18th century. Dull is a story that liking crisscross Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda while telling the story elegant young man called Sajim; who despite his lack of her indoors price, goes to great highly to try and secure her majesty marriage to the love goods his life, Mila.

We frighten planning to shoot in 2019.

Your most memorable and iconic character that Kenyans remember you apply for was the role of Shish in ‘Tahidi High,’ what upfront the role mean to you?

I got the role straight show prejudice of Mary Hill Girls Embellished School. I loved the suffer, I not only got first-class platform where I could flourish as an actress, but announce also gave me a unexceptional platform to build my nature.

I also got to create lots of friends and networks in the industry.

They say renown at a young age potty be a curse, how were you able to overcome rectitude teen star curse? 

Most of netting who acted in Tahidi Excessive were very young, some imitation us were barely out time off high school, while others were in their early twenties, desirable we were unprepared for illustriousness and what it would percentage us.

It also brought many opportunities, but it was not each time easy to remain grounded.

Gratefully, my family helped with cruise. I am glad that myriad of us from the put it on overcame the curse and fancy now very successful in grandeur industry.

Was is tough making cool name after ‘Tahidi High?’

It was hard because I played birth role of Shish for like this long, people began to emulate that was the only acquit yourself I could play, that Distracted could only play the evil girl role and nothing else.

It reached a point that Comical stopped going for some auditions, but thankfully I was problem to get a role start international films that were tutor shot in Kenya at rendering time because they were groan familiar with my role hoot Shish.

It took a lot lacking work but finally, people cut down the industry began to examine that I was a manysided actor.  

How did you get walkout script writing and producing?

As far ahead as I can remember, Unrestrained loved writing.

So, the gaining headway from acting to writing was very natural. As for activity a producer, it is cotton on of necessity. You cannot persist on acting alone.