The Deep Dive - April 2024 Edition
Issue 49
Welcome to the April 2024 edition of The Deep Dive.
We hope you’re staying dry, given how much it’s been raining in various parts of Kenya.
This month, we celebrated a win at the Kalasha Awards, we visited The Senate for a screening Fertile Deception, and we went to Meru for a campus tour.
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Kalasha Awards
We were nominated for the esteemed Kalasha International Film and Television Awards by the Kenya Film Commission, recognizing contributions in film and TV. The nominees were:
Elijah Kanyi, nominated in two categories - Best Director and Best Director of Photography for Death of a Kenyan Heiress;
Best Documentary Feature for Death of a Kenyan Heiress;
Best Documentary Feature for Murdered for Love;
Steve Biko, nominated for Best Editor, Murdered for Love;
Catherine Muema, nominated for Best Production Designer, Murdered for Love.
We won the award for Best Documentary Feature for Death of a Kenyan Heiress. We are immensely proud of this achievement and grateful for the opportunity to use our platform to amplify critical narratives.
Senate Committee Fertile Deception screening
On April 2, Africa Uncensored staff appeared before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries to screen Fertile Deception, our documentary on fake fertilizer being distributed to farmers through the National Cereals and Produce Board. In the course of the sitting, the committee called out government agencies over their apparent negligence in allowing the questionable product to be distributed. Addressing the committee after the screening, Africa Uncensored CEO John-Allan Namu and Fertile Deception producer and lead reporter Cynthia Gichiri called on the government to act on all the evidence provided in the Fertile Deception documentary and elsewhere for the sake of food security in the country.
Meru Campus Tour
We were in Meru from the 3rd to the 5th of this month, where we hosted learning and mentorship workshops for students at Meru University and the Meru Institute of Business Studies. We covered a range of topics including cinematography, story development, scripting, podcasting, digital journalism, and video editing.
We also screened Fertile Deception and several other productions for the students to watch. The overall lesson for us is that thoughtful storytelling and investigative journalism may be difficult to do, but the next generation of journalists is ready for this challenge.
It was a truly rewarding experience, and we're thrilled to have equipped the students with crucial skills for investigative journalism and media practice.
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