2022Nominee
Best Director
Look Both Ways
Wanuri Kahiu
Director · Producer · Writer
Nairobi, Kenya
June 21, 1980
Biography
Wanuri Kahiu (born 21 June 1980) is a Kenyan film director, producer, and author. She has received several awards and nominations for the films which she directed, including the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Picture at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2009 for her dramatic feature film From a Whisper. She is also the co-founder of AFROBUBBLEGUM, a media collective dedicated to supporting African art.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2018Nominee
Best Director
Rafiki
2013Nominee
Best Picture
Homecoming
Career Highlights
2008Highlight
Best Writing
From a Whisper
2024Highlight
Best Picture
Sarah
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Look Both Ways
Rafiki
Africa First: Volume One